and a Chinese National arrested in the Bay Area for allegedly stealing confidential Trade Secrets From Google this is KTVU Fox 2 News at 7:30 and that man was living in the East Bay and had worked for Google as a software engineer now that arrest stps the news at 7:30 tonight hello everyone I'm Heather Holmes we got a look today at the Federal indictment our Crystal Bailey is here now and Crystal the confidential information pertained to one of Google's four businesses that's right the indictmen
t released this morning says the Google employee allegedly stole more than 500 confidential files surrounding the development of artificial intelligence and replicated the information at two Chinese companies the FBI arrested 38-year-old lyway ding known as leyon Wednesday morning from his home in Newark ding a Chinese citizen started working as a software engineer at Google in 2019 according to the Department of Justice he's accused of stealing artificial intelligence related software us attorn
ey general Merck Garland during a visit to San Francisco shared the US leads in AI technology saying it's important for our economy and National Security the Justice Department's first job is to protect uh that lead and to protect our intellectual properties the indictment says that in May of 2022 ding periodically began uploading Trade Secrets stored in Google's Network by copying the information to a personal Google Cloud account the charge is uh further that he uh stole this intellectual prop
erty um while he was working for two companies uh based in the People's Republic of China while at Google the indictment says ding simultaneously worked for a Chinese Tech startup where he acted as Chief technology officer and a company he founded and operated himself out of China One of the company's explicit goals was to replicate and upgrade Google's platform the same same platform about which ding had stolen Google's Trade Secrets ding is also accused of traveling to China to do business dea
ls while he was a Google employee and covering up his crimes the justice department just will not tolerate theft of our uh trade secrets in the area of artificial intelligence in a statement from Google their spokesperson told us we have strict safeguards to prevent a theft of our confidential commercial information and Trade Secrets going on to say we quickly referred the case to law enforcement we are grateful to the FBI for helping protect our information and will continue cooperating with th
em closely and ding was charged with four counts of theft of Trade Secrets and if convicted on all of those counts he could face 40 years in prison and a $1 million fine and federal investigators say they take this kind of crime very seriously they're working closely with companies here in Silicon Valley to protect intellectual property Crystal Bailey KTVU Fox 2 News
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They thought Bing was their greatest rival, but instead it was Ding.
Google hires Chinese citizen for its highly paid software engineering job while there are other American software engineers currently delivering pizza for living as a result of recent mass tech layoffs. Nice job Google.
At least China will now have a more racially diverse history.
I don’t understand why they hire Chinese citizens. They are obliged to send information to CCP by their constitution.
Who is surprised? who is still surprised?
Now all pictures of Xi will come out black 😂😂😂😂
Now China has their woke AI
How many of these Chinese operatives are continually entering the US illegally everyday? I think we lost count.
I'm sure this is just the tip of the iceberg
Well the show “CHINA UNCENSORED“ has tried to tell for years about this!
Chinese stealing someone else's technology? Gee who could have seen that coming?
Why would you hire the fuckin enemy and then be shocked he did what a enemy does?
I saw this coming. Ran into many of these Chinese nationals in the Bay Area years ago and I could tell where they had their loyalties.
He stole Google property and uploaded on Google Cloud?
Probably should look into who referred him or who pushed him along the hiring process as well.
Of course. Your fault for hiring them.
aye u hired a Chinese national... thats on you google
There is always a Chinese in a company who does these kinds of things
This is not a new thing, China has had a very active industrial espionage program going on in the US for decades. Companies like Motorola, DuPont, Dow have all been hit. It makes one wonder why any company would hire any Chinese national here on a work permit. If Google had only Googled “Chinese industrial espionage”. (Oh, the irony). They would have seen the risks.
google needs to go through their roster to see if there are any non-citizen and dual citizen in their company.