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A comment on Fitbit employees charged with stealing trade secrets from competitor Jawbone.

Re:Fitbit employees charged with stealing trade secrets from... by methodover on Friday June 15, 2018 @10:41AM (#17320077)
Do we know any details about what specific trade secrets were “stolen”?

This is legitimately scary to me. If I change jobs how do I know what the line is between applying past experience and copying trade secrets?

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Re:Fitbit employees charged with stealing trade secrets from... by bwilliams18 on Friday June 15, 2018 @11:04AM (#17320244)
Did you copy files and take them with you? Or do you just remember things that you then apply? If it's the latter you're probably safe.
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Re:Fitbit employees charged with stealing trade secrets from... by mattnewton on Friday June 15, 2018 @11:24AM (#17320374)
Probably safe from a maximum of 10 years jail and 250k in fines is still scary to me.
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