Former Apple Engineer Charged with Stealing Self-Driving Car Tech for China

A former Apple engineer has been charged with attempting to steal the company's technology related to autonomous systems, including self-driving cars, and then fleeing to China. The case was among five announced on Tuesday aimed at countering alleged efforts to illicitly acquire American technology by nations including Russia, Iran, and China. The former engineer, identified as Weibao Wang, was hired by Apple in 2016 and was found to have accessed large amounts of proprietary data in the days before his departure. Four arrests were made in connection with the five cases, which were brought in New York, California, and Arizona.