The FBI in Dallas recently warned about 100 administrators and faculty members at universities across Texas about the threat of intellectual property theft by the Chinese government.
The Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas FBI at the time, Matthew DeSarno, said what's being targeted is the research being conducted on college campuses.
During the conference, officials discussed how the universities could protect their research, often funded by American taxpayers, from being stolen by visiting scholars who could simply transfer the work back to their own universities in China and other countries. UNT told CBS 11 its representatives attended the FBI's conference and that"UNT takes seriously its responsibility to protect intellectual property and to work with authorities to prevent against cybersecurity attacks and the threat of stolen intellectual property."
While Mitchell said they want their professors to be collaborative, they've taken action to prevent future problems. "They come in there literally just a week or two," Mitchell said."Historically, we've not done background checks on those folks. We are starting to do that now to make sure that if somebody's coming to our campus, even if it's for a short period of time, that we know where they're from, we know whether or not they're being financed by government agencies elsewhere.
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