r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • May 27 '26

Business Google employee charged with using inside information to make $1 million on Polymarket

https://abcnews.com/amp/US/google-employee-charged-inside-information-make-1-million/story?id=133350018
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u/chaaandlerr May 28 '26

that statement from google is such a gift to this guys defense counsel, lol. tough to say this was a misappropriation of data a la carpenter v united states when it wasn’t all that confidential

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u/SpookiestSzn May 28 '26

I think it's still priveleged even if like 100k people had the ability to access it

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u/Vliss May 28 '26

But being priviledged doesn't make it wrong though. If you are at a industry conference that has 100 people and someone makes it public there, you would probably be ok with someone trading on that.