apple: Ex-Apple worker who wants to work for Chinese

SAN FRANCISCO: US authorities on Monday to form Apple Inc. employee with theft of trade secrets, alleging that the person has a secret to a country, according to to a criminal complaint filed in federal court.

The complaint said that the former employee, Xiaolang Zhang, was a self-driving driver and last-minute flight to China after downloading a map for the self-driving car. Authorities arrested Zhang on July 7 at the San Jose airport after he passed through a security checkpoint.

"Apple takes privacy and the protection of our intellectual property very seriously," Apple said in a statement. "We are working with authorities on this matter and we will do everything we can to ensure that we are able to do so."

Tamara Crepet, a lawyer provisionally appointed to represent Zhang, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The criminal complaint says, "Where are you going?", Where is it designed and tested circuit boards to analyze sensor data.

In April, Zhang took the following departure from China and traveled to China. District Court of the Northern District of California.

When Zhang is expected to resign, move to China and work for Xiaopeng Motors, the complaint says.

Zhang's supervisor called Apple's security officials, who discovered that Zhang had run extensive searches of secret databases and had come to on Apple's campus on April 28, when he was supposed to be on paternity leave, the complaint alleges.

While on campus, the complaint alleges, Zhang took a circuit board and a computer server from a self-driving car hardware lab, and his Apple co-workers showed him a "proprietary chip."

The complaint did not state that it was intended for self-driving cars. About 5,000 of Apple's 135,000 employees, but only 2,700 of them had access to the secret databases.

Zhang told Apple officials he had taken the hardware from the lab because he thought it would be useful to him, the complaints states.

Zhang, a 25-page secret blueprint for circuit board for a self-driving car, which investigators described as "the single file" that "serves as the basis for the instant criminal charge."

Agents for the Federal Bureau of Investigation questioned Zhang and served a search warrant on his house on June 27, according to the complaints. Agents learned he had "last-minute," Zhang at the airport, according to the complaint.