Ex-Apple engineer held over driverless car secrets theft

A former Apple engineer was arrested on charges of stealing driverless car secrets for a Chinese startup after he passed through the security checkpoint at San Jose International Airport in the US to board a flight to China.

Zhang Xiaolang was accused by US prosecutors of downloading files containing proprietary information as he prepared to leave the iPhone maker in April and start work for Guangzhou-based Xiaopeng Motors, according to a criminal complaint in a federal court in San Jose in California.