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Apple files case against former Chinese employee, stole secrets related to Apple Watch before joining Oppo
Apple has accused its former employee of stealing sensitive information related to Apple Watch and sharing it with Oppo. A case has been registered against an employee named Chen who worked in Apple's sensor system architect section. It is alleged that he downloaded many confidential files before leaving the job. Oppo has denied these allegations.
Apple has issued a legal notice to its previous employee. Apple accused the employee of pilfering confidential information regarding Apple Watch and leaking it to Chinese smartphone manufacturer Oppo. Apple filed this case against Chen Xi in Northern California. The employee was with Apple's sensor system architect division.
Here, he had numerous confidential information about Apple Watch. These consist of design, technical documents, internal specifications and Apple's future product roadmap information. Apple accused Chen Xi of misusing his privileges after he left the company.
Apple says that Chen Xi left the job to return to China to take care of his elderly parents in China. He did not inform about the Oppo job. Apple claims that Chen met the technical team of Apple Watch dozens of times and obtained information about the ongoing research on it. Chen is currently leading Oppo's sensing technology team.
Apple has also accused him of having downloaded 63 files from Apple's Secure Box folder three days before he resigned and subsequently saved them in a USB drive. Even after this, he allegedly also searched how to remove the activity history of MacBook.
