The US Department of Justice has charged a Chinese citizen with stealing trade secrets from Apple, including information about driverless car technology, in one of five cases brought by a new task force focused on protecting critical technology from foreign governments.
A federal court on Tuesday unsealed an indictment accusing Weibao Wang, a former software engineer at Apple, of taking thousands of documents, including research and development of technology for autonomous systems used in self-driving cars.
The DoJ alleged that while the engineer was working on a secret project for Apple, he also started working for a US-based subsidiary of a company headquartered in China, which it said was developing self-driving cars.