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I am actually sincerely curious - is this considered a felony if proven? Seems like a major offense to steal such a massive amount of information blatantly for
by mingyeow 10y ago
I am actually sincerely curious - is this considered a felony if proven? Seems like a major offense to steal such a massive amount of information blatantly for self enrichment, even if done under the missive of "changing the world"
This cannot end well.
- isubkhankulov 10y agoThe suit is a civil tort, seeking damages. A felony is a criminal charge, usually against a person. I'm sure Google can call the CA District attorney and/or the western US district attorney to make a criminal complaint, State and Federal, respectively. I'm not an expert on the actual criminal charges available on each level but probably something about trade secrets if we're talking federal charges.
- coolgeek 10y agoSome info about criminal penalties under UTSA and DTSA here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_secret#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_secret#United_States I think that DTSA may not hold here because it wasn't signed until the events occurred. I went looking into this after a comment from Animats in yesterday's thread struck me as odd https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13719070 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13719070
- tracker1 10y agogit clone REPO_NAME It really depends on the specifics of the case... the above could easily download 14K documents (necessary for doing work by said employee) a full 6 weeks before leaving the company.