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Google worker charged with using internal data to make $1.2m on bets (www.bbc.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Insider trading? Did they update finance laws to cover gambling?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago*

    Polymarket skirts gambling laws by insisting it's not gambling. Instead it's legally registered as a futures market (or something like that, I don't remember the details). So all bets are legally stock market trades.

    Knowing that, it makes sense.

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