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Apple sues former MacBook product design employee for allegedly leaking to the press

Posted on March 13, 2021 by Dissent

Ian Sherr reports:

Apple says a former product design employee stole information about hardware products, unannounced features and future plans and leaked them to a journalist, breaking the company’s nondisclosure policies and trade secrets laws.

In the the lawsuit, filed Thursday in the US District Court of the Northern District of California, Apple outlined a working relationship between a former employee, Simon Lancaster, and an unnamed journalist.

Read more on CNET.


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