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Re: Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets

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Post by shagie »

xienze wrote: post #56
Thorrez wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You expect Google to scan the database of companies in every country continuously to see if employees are executives of them? How would this handle different people who have the same name? Disclosure: I work at Google.

Presumably for such a high profile position a simple um, Google of the person, checking LinkedIn, or a standard background check would reveal this.

> Within weeks of the theft starting, prosecutors say, Ding was offered the position of chief technology officer at an early-stage technology company in China that touted its use of AI technology and that offered him a monthly salary of about $14,800, plus an annual bonus and company stock. The indictment says Ding traveled to China and participated in investor meetings at the company and sought to raise capital for it.

> He also separately founded and served as chief executive of a China-based startup company that aspired to train “large AI models powered by supercomputing chips,” the indictment said.

These events happened after the person was hired.

This would suggest performing background checks with some frequency - presumably at least once a month - in order to catch the events promptly.

Re: Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets

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Post by ActionHank »

Thorrez wrote: post #47
feverzsj wrote: post #27

So he was already CEO/CTO of 2 China companies while still working in google. And these information are publicly available right after he registering them. Seems a management disaster of google.

You expect Google to scan the database of companies in every country continuously to see if employees are executives of them? How would this handle different people who have the same name? Disclosure: I work at Google.

So I've worked at a few places, none nearly as fancy as Google. Not a single one would have had files being uploaded to personal cloud storage from a work device go unnoticed. That was the red flag, at that point they should've been monitoring actively.

Re: Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets

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Post by TheCoelacanth »

nonethewiser wrote: post #48
a_gnostic wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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"Muslim-ban" is not accurate because it did not ban on the basis of being Muslim or not. It was a ban on travel to the US for 90 days from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. There are many predominately Muslim countries it didn't include and it was specifically about travel from those countries.

"Muslim ban" is what the person who initiated it called it, not a description of the actual effects.

Re: Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets

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Post by 2devnull »

Thorrez wrote: post #47
feverzsj wrote: post #27

So he was already CEO/CTO of 2 China companies while still working in google. And these information are publicly available right after he registering them. Seems a management disaster of google.

You expect Google to scan the database of companies in every country continuously to see if employees are executives of them? How would this handle different people who have the same name? Disclosure: I work at Google.

“showing that another employee had scanned Ding’s access badge at the Google building in the U.S. where he worked to make it look like Ding was there during times when he was actually in China”

Google can’t secure itself. That’s been true for years. It’s an enterprise held together by monopoly power, lobbying and low interest rates.

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