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Good. This was a flagrant and deliberate violation. To argue Apple is overstepping here is to suggest Apple employees are exempt from the law.
by huebnerob 8y ago
Good. This was a flagrant and deliberate violation. To argue Apple is overstepping here is to suggest Apple employees are exempt from the law.
- walshemj 8y agoSurprised that he is not being charged under the espionage act and also in a way why apple hired him - or is the USA less strict about hiring into sensitive industries.
- pm90 8y ago> or is the USA less strict about hiring into sensitive industries. No. On the contrary you need various kinds of security clearances to work in sensitive fields.
- anonnel 8y agoWhoa there buddy. How about we be a little careful with the xenophobic talk, no?
- andrestan 8y agoIt's not xenophobic to want or expect a country to protect its IP from a country known to openly flout such rules.
- anonnel 8y agoQuestioning why Chinese nationals are hired in tech is xenophobia. Period.
- chaostheory 8y agoYou should probably have made that clear in your original comment. I missed it myself.
- WilliamEdward 8y agoI think they were questioning why Apple would hire a non-US citizen to work closely on valuable US trade secrets.
- anonnel 8y agoRight, xenophobia.
- gonyea 8y agoIt's not xenophobic to exclude people who are citizens of a country with no extradition treaty from working on sensitive projects.
- pvg 8y agoIt would be but nobody really does that on the basis of extradition treaties anyway.
- meowface 8y agoAlso consider a large number of Russian and Chinese spies have been American citizens born in America and who've lived in America their whole lives. Collaboration with a foreign government is not 1-to-1 with what country you're a citizen of.
- khuey 8y agoIt's certainly not 1 to 1, but it's hardly farfetched to believe that someone born in China and presumably still a citizen of it (and thus not of the US) is more likely to abscond to China with the proprietary IP of an American company than a random American citizen born in America who's lived there their entire life.
- meowface 8y agoYes, of course, but if you start looking at everyone from a foreign country with suspicion, you're not going to have a tenable situation. For certain extremely high-value things like military and defense projects, those precautions are necessary, but otherwise you're just eliminating large amounts of potential talent for probably no good reason.
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- fiatpandas 8y agoespionage act for non political / military related corporate secrets? Kinda glad it doesn’t work that way
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- programmarchy 8y agoEven if you're giving the secrets to another state? Especially in this case, where autonomous vehicles could have military applications...
- fiatpandas 8y ago>Even if you're giving the secrets to another state? Industrial espionage / theft of trade secrets is not in the realm of the Espionage Act (even if that industrial espionage is directed by a foreign state). Apple's Neat Car That Drives Itself is not classified technology and is not national defense information. See: Economic Espionage Act