Former Tesla Employee Admits to Uploading Trade Secrets to His iCloud

Former Tesla Employee Admits to Uploading Trade Secrets to His iCloud
A Tesla sales and service center in Costa Mesa, Calif., on June 28, 2018. Mike Blake/Reuters
Eva Fu
Eva Fu
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A former engineer at Tesla has admitted to taking the company’s proprietary files and uploading them to his personal drive, recent court documents show.

During his employment at Tesla’s headquarters in Palo Alto, California, Cao Guangzhi, a former engineer of Tesla’s Autopilot program, took company files and stored it on his personal iCloud account. He also compressed the Autopilot-related files into zip files for easier transport, according to court documents.

Eva Fu
Eva Fu
Reporter
Eva Fu is an award-winning, New York-based journalist for The Epoch Times focusing on U.S. politics, U.S.-China relations, religious freedom, and human rights. Contact Eva at [email protected]
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