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New spying claims emerge in Silicon Valley corporate espionage scandal

by devrandoom on 6/5/25, 3:23 PM with 2 comments

  • by duxup on 6/5/25, 3:25 PM

    >The latest claim comes after Rippling alleged earlier this year that a staff member had been spying on behalf of Deel. The employee locked themselves into a bathroom and smashed their phone with an axe when confronted with allegations, according to their own testimony.

    I admire their enthusiasm!

    >posed as a customer and accessed details of Deel’s products and business practices over the course of six months.

    I've never seen anyone pretend to be a customer, BUT I've been given customer presentations made by sort of similar software in the past just to get a feel for what is out there. I assume that competitors possibly have recordings of presentations I've made ... once you show customers I assume the data is out in the wild.

    The rest of the spying does seem, excessive but when you have roles like “competitive intelligence manager” I gotta think they almost certainly go overboard.

  • by net01 on 6/5/25, 3:32 PM