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US govt announces arrest of ex Google engineer for alleged AI trade secret theft

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"Ding did not inform Google about his affiliations with these companies and failed to disclose his travels to participate in investor meetings in China.

On the contrary, Ding allegedly asked a colleague to periodically scan his entrance badge to make it appear that he was working from the U.S. Google office while he was in China."

If you ever work for a badge-wearing company, DO NOT DO THIS. It's not a "favor." It's a great way to get fired.

Or, in this case, be found to be aiding and abetting an agent of foreign espionage.

[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39628842

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39622842

How come these people are almost always Chinese? I mean I saw the headline and thought "probably Chinese".

There's a great long piece about this chemist woman, forgot the name, who worked for these companies that make can lining to store food, and she was doing the exact same thing. Work for an American company, monetize the IP in China. It's a really fascinating story actually.

Because China has the largest state sponsored program in the world devoted to IP theft.

Some information about China’s “thousand talents plan” and how it works:

https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/counterintelligence/the-chin...

> There's a great long piece about this chemist woman, forgot the name, who worked for these companies that make can lining to store food, and she was doing the exact same thing.

Shannon You[1].

[1] https://www.justice.gov/usao-edtn/pr/phd-chemist-sentenced-1...

Original title was

> US gov’t announces arrest of former Google engineer for alleged AI trade secret theft

which was a few characters too long.

More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39628842

Also on Bleeping Computer here: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-engineer...

Oh, it’s Arsetechnica, the ones that care about my privacy. Thank you but no thank you.

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