Google employee lands in trouble over d4vd, Mamdani bets

Betting on Google search trends is no longer a game; it’s a federal crime. By charging an engineer with commodities fraud for using internal "Year in Search" data to win on Polymarket, the DOJ has officially declared prediction markets as regulated financial territory. If knowing who people are googling is now "insider information" punishable by decades in prison, has the government overreached into the world of crypto betting? Or is this the accountability the industry needs?
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