I think a large chunk of folks tolerate working at Apple just to get it on their résumé.
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Apple Accuses Former Employee of Stealing Vision Pro Secrets
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I think a large chunk of folks tolerate working at Apple just to get it on their résumé.
Yet.
"Apple is seeking a court order requiring Liu to return the allegedly stolen materials and allow inspection of his devices and accounts to verify that no Apple confidential information remains. The company is also pursuing unspecified financial damages for breach of contract and misappropriation of trade secrets."
Felony theft is a crime so criminal charges will depend on what they discover. For example, if there is evidence that his new job with Snap was unofficially based on his bringing trade secret data with him. The dude couldn't hide the tracks on his MacBook so I bet there are incriminating emails or messages.
Apple's contract does reserve their "right" to search your private hardware before you leave as well.
One of them does a presentation called “stump the programmer” and is employee #8. The other controls all the privacy features throughout their business and helped get Apple on the track of Objective-C and later Swift along with being a team member on the original Macintosh and later a founding member of NeXT. Most of Apple’s low retention is due to temporary, QA, and retail employees, along with lower level employees refusing to return to work after COVID.
We’ll know the allegations are true if Snap releases a 10lb VR headset for $3k. 😂
You can get 2-20 for stealing a car; trade secret data is far more valuable than a car.
that quote doesn't stay anything about the possibility of criminal charges
criminal charges would depend on a district attorney deciding to lay those charged, not on what if anything is found on his devices, assuming apple convinces the court to allow inspection of his devices
one could argue any "secrets" about the Vision Pro are far less valuable than a rusted chassis on bricks ¯\\(ツ)/¯
also, you still can't sue someone in to prison
if someone steals your car, and you want them to go to prison, you have to call the police, that hasn't happened here
He signed an agreement that stated that the work that he did for Apple is Apple’s property, not his. This is a standard agreement when you work for a company with intellectual property. He stole the data and he should return the data and face the consequences of steeling.
An article of MR isnt going to contain Apple's full private legal strategy.
Criminal charges will depend on the extent of what was stolen and its financial impact, but you can get prison time for stealing a car. If the discovery shows that the data just remained on his private computer the charges will be lower than if it has been transferred somewhere else.
That would be in violation of the IP agreement that you would have signed and could be prosecuted for theft.
You can't take a few higher up individuals and say Apple doesn't have a high turnover rate. What's the point of that...it's like saying we have top 5 millionaires so the rest of the 5 million people in the country are doing perfectly fine (they're not).
No spyware is needed, all computers log what is done on the computer and you have no right to privacy on company issued devices. He would not have an IQ over 100 at best for doing something so stupid. Apple has every right to protect their IP and trade secrets.
again, criminal charges will depend on a district attorney deciding to lay such charges
That is just your opinion about the value of the IP that was stolen.
nope, breaking a contract is not a criminal matter
you can't be prosecuted for anything for breaking a contract
Which will depend on what was done with the data after it was stolen.
I'm honestly a little scared by how many people want to go straight to "jailing people" no matter what the offense.
History really is a circle sometimes.
History really is a circle sometimes.
Evidence indicates that the guy was not that smart. If he had developed anything, he would have been able to reproduce it, learning from the mistakes they was made the first time.
sort of. only if a district attorney believes that charges are warranted AND have a good chance of resulting in a criminal conviction
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And Apple is not seek criminal charges against the theif.
It depends, installing spyware would be illegal over here. You cannot spy on your employees in that way in Germany, but I guess in the USA Apple is within its rights...
That said, copying it from his work laptop to their private cloud is just dumb. Backing it to a USB stick or SD card that he happened to "forget" to hand in, you might get away with. And waiting until you have handed in your notice, before looking at copying the files is also dumb. Chances are, here, you'd be put straight on gardening leave.