Ex-Google Engineer Gets 18 Months In Prison For Stealing Trade Secrets

Former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski was sentenced by a U.S. judge to eighteen months in prison for stealing trade secrets from Google's self-driving car unit before he defected to Uber's rival unit. Levandowski admitted that from 2009 to 2016, he worked in Google's self-driving car program, known then as Project Chauffer.