{"id":108292,"date":"2019-08-28T17:13:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T16:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/?p=108292"},"modified":"2019-08-28T17:13:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T16:13:04","slug":"ex-google-engineer-charged-with-stealing-trade-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/ex-google-engineer-charged-with-stealing-trade-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"
Former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski, on Wednesday charged with stealing trade secrets when he appeared in a San Jose court in Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n
Levandowski, a 39-year-old engineer who once worked at Google as an expert on self-driving technologies, was charged by the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California on 33 counts of theft and attempted theft of trade secrets.<\/p>\n
U.S. Attorney David Anderson, said Levandowski downloaded about 14,000 Google files to his Google computer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe indictment alleges that each of these trade secrets was reasonably protected by Google had economic value and was not generally known,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n
According to the indictment, Levandowski quit his job at Google in 2016 and joined U.S. ride-sharing giant Uber Technologies, Inc. shortly afterward.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Attorney\u2019s office said if convicted, Levandowski could be sentenced to a maximum of 10 years and fined $250,000, plus restitution, for each violation.<\/p>\n
However, Levandowski\u2019s lawyers said that the ex-Google engineer had been an industry-leading innovator in self-driving technologies for more than 10 years.<\/p>\n
They asserted that Levandowski had continued to lead the development of new and innovative safe-driving technologies to advance this ground-breaking industry.<\/p>\n
The lawyers said that Levandowski was innocent, and would look forward to proving it at trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski, on Wednesday charged with stealing trade secrets when he appeared in a San Jose court in Silicon Valley. Levandowski, a 39-year-old engineer who once worked at Google as an expert on self-driving technologies, was charged by the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California on 33 counts of theft […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":108293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15,2],"tags":[50618,50617],"yoast_head":"\n