But the giants may just hate the act of stealing trade secrets. They secretly ask their employees to go to other companies to steal trade secrets! Recently, the movie was played by Huawei, not only by its employees but also by the court. One hundred million U.S. dollars.
According to Yuntou, Jesse Hong has been a software architect for Huawei smartphone giant Huawei's subsidiary, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Futurewei Technologies) since 2014. During his tenure, he was sent by Huawei to spy on trade secrets. After refusing to participate, Hong raised concerns about Huawei's activities, but was dismissed in March this year.
Recently, he filed a lawsuit against Huawei and asked Huawei to pay $105 million in damages.
According to the indictment of the High Court of Santa Clara County, Hong said in the lawsuit that in 2016, Huawei instructed two employees of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. to use fraudulent techniques to mix in the annual 'TIP Summit' attended by many telecom companies. ' (most of them are startups that compete with Huawei), this summit was held at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park.
The reason why it is called 'mixed in' is because Huawei had asked to participate in this closed-door meeting hosted by many US companies sponsored by Facebook, but it was rejected by Facebook, so Huawei ordered Sean Chen, manager of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and another employee. Use 'screening US company name', 'register registration, and mix into Facebook to ban Huawei's participation in the venue'.
After Chen and another employee attended the Facebook Summit, Huawei immediately produced a report (with a plan attached to Huawei's competitors) and sent the relevant information back to Huawei's product team in China. Litigation allegations, another employee ( In the lawsuit, it was only called 'Sam'. I also obtained confidential information and provided it to Huawei by the convenience of providing consulting services for American companies.
Hong believes that it is illegal to steal trade secrets and/or send such confidential information back to Huawei in China. However, he was dismissed from his own words, so he angered and brought the former owner to court.
In fact, since 2012, Huawei has been in trouble in the United States. In that year, US Congress investigators determined that the company poses a threat to US security. Huawei's products may be used for espionage, saying that Huawei's knowledge of other US entities and companies is ignored. Property rights. '
It is worth mentioning that Facebook admitted to sharing user data with Huawei and other companies in June. Afterwards, Huawei said that it has never collected or stored Facebook user data.
It is reported that the Telecommunication Infrastructure Project (TIP) has more than 500 member companies, which said it is reading the contents of the lawsuit, but is not willing to comment on the litigation matters.
