Earlier this year, Tesla filed a lawsuit against Guanghzi Cao, a party engineer joining China's Xiapeng Motors. According to them, the former employee would have copied the Autopilot codes onto his iCloud.
Flights to Tesla but also to Apple
Tesla engineer working on the development of the Autopilot, Guanghzi Cao is one of 40 people in possession of the source code of the technology. He would have copied on his iCloud, late 2018, the records and directories of the American firm.
According to the brand, the engineer zipped and copied more than 300,000 files and could have provided them to the Chinese electric vehicle company, Xiapeng Motors.
The latter is also known as Xpeng or Xmotors and supported by the Chinese giant Alibaba. Tesla, on the same occasion, issued a subpoena pertaining to apple's complaint against one of its former employees. He had been accused by the FBI of industrial espionage. The man was arrested in July while leaving for Beijing, working for Xpeng too. Apple's engineer faces 10 years in prison and a $ 250,000 fine.
By this gesture, Tesla probably wants to show that the Chinese company has already been involved in a case of this type.
The defense is organized
Mr. Cao, who wishes to show his good faith, explained himself. According to his lawyers, he has removed 120,000 records and refutes the existence of 300,000 cases, mentioned by Tesla. He even disconnected his iCloud and deleted his browsing history when he accepted the contract with the Chinese company.
In addition, his lawyers explained that if Tesla's files remained on their client's iCloud, it was " inadvertently ", and assured that Cao " did not have access and did not use any in any way the trade secrets of the Autopilot.
Guangzhou Cao gave Tesla access to all his computers but also to his Gmail account, voluntarily provided Tesla with a digital image of [Cao's] working computer. " The Chinese company has announced that it has opened an internal investigation.
This case falls again very badly, the United States is at the moment in commercial war with China, and the two countries being implied, indirectly, in several cases of espionage economic and industrial.
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