{"id":40769,"date":"2020-08-05T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ex-google-engineer-anthony-levandowski-gets-18-months-for-stealing-trade-secrets\/"},"modified":"2020-08-05T15:32:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T12:32:00","slug":"ex-google-engineer-anthony-levandowski-gets-18-months-for-stealing-trade-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ex-google-engineer-anthony-levandowski-gets-18-months-for-stealing-trade-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"#Ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski gets 18 months for stealing trade secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski gets 18 months for stealing trade secrets<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 5, 2020 |<\/span> 8:32am |<\/span> Updated August 5, 2020 | 8:32am<\/span><\/p>\n

\n A former Google engineer who stole self-driving car technology<\/a> for Uber was sentenced this week to 18 months in prison,\u00a0 in what a California judge called the \u201cbiggest trade secret crime\u201d he\u2019s ever seen.<\/p>\n

US District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco refused to hand out a shorter sentence Tuesday to Anthony Levandowski, because it would have given \u201ca green light to every future brilliant engineer to steal trade secrets,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The sentencing comes five months after Levandowski, 40, who was ordered to pay $179 million in damages to his former employer \u2014\u00a0a punishment that resulted in him immedia<\/a>tely filing for bankruptcy.<\/p>\n

Levandowski allegedly download<\/a>ed 14,000 documents from Waymo, Google\u2019s self-driving car subsidiary, in December 2015 as he was about to leave his job there after being poached by then-Uber CEO Travis Kalanick.<\/p>\n

After leaving Waymo, Levandowski formed an autonomous trucking company called Otto which was promptly acquired by Uber.<\/p>\n

Uber and Waymo eventually settled the dispute to the tune of $245 million, but Levandowski was charged by San Francisco federal prosecutors last August with looting the top-secret files.<\/p>\n

Levandowski was facing 33 counts, with a maximum sentence of 10 years apiece, but pleaded guilty to just one, which accused him of downloading to his personal computer a file that tracked technical goals for Google\u2019s self-driving project.<\/p>\n

\u201cI downloaded these files with the intent to use them for my own personal benefit, and I understand that I was not authorized to take the files for that purpose,\u201d Levandowski said in court papers.<\/p>\n

Levandowski requested one-year confinement at his Marin County home, contending that bouts with pneumonia in recent years would make him susceptible to COVID-19 in prison. His attorneys asked the judge to consider that investigators found no evidence that \u201cLevandowski used any of Google\u2019s trade secrets after leaving Google\u2019s employment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alsup ruled that Levandowski could enter custody once the pandemic has subsided.<\/p>\n

The engineer, who now runs self-driving truck company Pronto, apologized to Google and said he plans to share his story of regret with others in the tech industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday marks the end of three and a half long years and the beginning of another long road ahead,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n

With Post wires.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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