Nvidia Sued After Engineer Accidentally Shares Data from Old Job on Video Call

bloomberg.com

A $16k fine for this is miniature compared to the cost of R&D of that information.

I think it was the fine to the employee, there's a separate lawsuit against Nvidia.

TLDR: "A Nvidia Corp. engineer, during a video conference call with his former employer, had one of those oops moments. He shared his screen, leaving a file up that contained data about robocar technology that he had stolen from his previous company, Valeo SE."

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