Google India sues ex-staff for leaking Pixel secrets and techniques – Instances of India

BENGALURU: Google and its Indian division initiated authorized proceedings within the US in opposition to Harshit Roy, a former worker from their Bengaluru workplace, for disclosing confidential commerce secrets and techniques. The disclosed data included detailed specs of proprietary {hardware} and software program for Pixel units, which appeared on his social media accounts. Google engaged an exterior investigator to trace down Roy to cease him from additional dissemination of the misappropriated commerce secrets and techniques that prompted irreparable hurt to Google.
Within the earlier yr, Roy turned concerned with the event of next-generation system-on-chip know-how for upcoming Pixel units (SoC). As a prerequisite, Roy’s function required him to signal a confidential data and invention task settlement, contemplating his place would necessitate entry to Google’s proprietary commerce secrets and techniques.