insider

The underlying problem is that insider trading as a crime is so ad hoc to begin with.

Thus, the test is whether the insider personally will benefit, directly or indirectly, from his disclosure.

If someone used information hacked or found by another person would that fall under insider trading?

Except that the executives usually have automatic sales, to shield themselves from illegal insider trading.

That's why the majority of insider trading prosecutions that succeed, are against outsiders like Martha Stewart or the subjects of TFA.

People also use their home internet connections to violate IP, confidentiality and insider trading agreements.

When you lose 5 people to the same place that's usually from insider recruiting.

This is interesting, I was under the impression that insider trading covered even things accidentally leaked from companies.

People clearly do abuse those connections to violate IP, confidentiality, and insider trading agreements.

I was in the insider preview, and they changed the UI style they were going for a few times.

The Supreme Court ruled that to be liable a tippee must know that the insider leaked the information in breach of a duty.

I took some time a while back to look into why insider trading is considered bad.

Logically, therefore, proof the tippee knew there was a breach of duty means proof the tippee knew that the insider received some personal benefit." It would have to be the case that a breach of a duty can only be established if the insider received some personal benefit in exchange for the leak, in order for the conclusion to hold.

I've been on the "insider preview" for a few weeks now, and I must say that I think Windows 10 is an absolutely amazing OS.

And absent a breach by the insider, there is no derivative breach." There is a fiduciary duty of care, though that has mostly to with care in the execution of corporate policies and transactions.

The reasoning of Dirks seems to be that the relevant duty is the duty of loyalty, because the purpose of the law is to eliminate the "use of insider information for personal gain." So while copying sensitive information into a USB may breach one's duty of care, it's not a breach of the duty of loyalty and not within the scope of the law.

Insider trading prohibitions serve to prolong the public's ignorance, and so deepen the public's trading losses.

Insider trading is a crime because it's valuable for the executive class to punish early defectors.