Google Engineer Convicted Of ESPIONAGE
By Anthony
I wonder if Democrats can still say “diversity is our greatest strength” after reading this.
A former Google engineer has been convicted of espionage charges.
According to a Department of Justice press release, a Chinese engineer who was working for Google was found guilty of treason and theft of confidential technology after he sold Google trade secrets to Chinese firms.
Axios provided more details on the crime:
A former Google engineer was found guilty of economic espionage and theft of confidential AI technology for the benefit of China’s government, the FBI said Monday.
Intelligence and defense officials have long warned of increased efforts by Beijing and others to obtain U.S. intellectual property and use AI against American interests.
A federal jury in San Francisco convicted Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, 38, of seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets, per an FBI post on X Monday.
Ding was accused of stealing thousands of pages of confidential information containing Google’s trade secrets related to artificial intelligence technology and sharing them with two Chinese tech firms.
He was originally indicted in March 2024 before a superseding indictment was returned last year on the charges Ding was convicted of.
The jury found him guilty of stealing more than two thousand pages of confidential information containing Google’s AI trade secrets from Google’s network and uploading them to his personal Google Cloud account while working for the company from May 2022 and April 2023.