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Former Google AI engineer says US economic espionage evidence came from illegal search

By Mike Swift ( April 9, 2025, 00:04 GMT | Insight) -- Former Google AI engineer Linwei Ding claimed his civil rights were violated during a three-hour FBI search and interrogation in which he was never read his Miranda rights, as he moved today to suppress evidence in his US economic espionage case. Ding is accused of stealing Google AI secrets to start a company in China to help fulfill a technology gap identified by the Chinese government. At a hearing in San Francisco today, however, a federal judge suggested Ding is unlikely to succeed in his motion to dismiss the government's Economic Espionage Act allegations. US federal agents rammed down Linwei Ding’s door before dawn last year, separated the Google AI engineer from his wife and child, handcuffed him at gunpoint, and kept him in a locked car while questioning him for three hours — without reading his Miranda rights, Ding says....

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