{"id":673342,"date":"2025-06-03T23:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T20:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/now-deel-is-accusing-rippling-of-spying-by-impersonating-a-customer\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T23:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T20:05:15","slug":"now-deel-is-accusing-rippling-of-spying-by-impersonating-a-customer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/now-deel-is-accusing-rippling-of-spying-by-impersonating-a-customer\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Deel is accusing Rippling of spying by \u2018impersonating\u2019 a customer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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HR tech startup Deel filed an amended complaint on Tuesday in its ongoing legal battle against its arch rival Rippling that offers surprising new details about its own corporate spying allegations. <\/p>\n

Rippling sued Deel in March after a Rippling employee testified in an Irish court that he was spying on his employer for the rival in an affidavit that reads like a Hollywood movie. Rippling\u2019s lawsuit alleges misapp<\/a>ropriation of trade secrets, tortious interference, unfair competition, and more, largely based on the spying allegations. <\/p>\n

Deel has since countersued, attempting to get the suit dismissed for technical reasons, but also making its own allegations like that that Rippling has also been spying.\u00a0This amended complaint offers more details on what Deel means by that. <\/p>\n

Specifically, it alleges that one of Rippling\u2019s employees, who holds the job title of Competitive Intelligence \u201cspent six months impersonating a legitimate Deel customer to gain unauthorized access to Deel\u2019s systems to meticulously analyze, record, and copy Deel\u2019s global products and the way Deel does business for Rippling\u2019s own benefit and use.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The lawsuit is also full of insults hurled at Rippling\u2019s CEO Parker Conrad and his troubles at his previous company, Zenefits. At times, the complaint ventures into psychoanalysis territory. \u201cTo understand Conrad is to understand Rippling,\u201d the suit claims.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

It then goes on to speculate that Rippling has targeted Deel because Conrad is angry at Zenefits\u2019 VC backer Andreessen Horowitz: \u201cSadly, it is now apparent that Conrad has made it his life\u2019s goal to exact misguided and petty revenge on those connected with Andreessen, including Deel, in which Andreessen owns a 20% share.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the complaint alleges that \u201cRippling has planted false and misleading claims about Deel in the press and with regulators across the country.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

This appears to stem from 2023, when U.S. Senator Adam Schiff posted a public letter<\/a> asking the U.S. Department of Labor to look into how Deel was classifying workers. This after Business Insider published<\/a> an investigation on the matter. Deel denied wrongdoing <\/a>at the time and said a discussion with Schiff put the matter to bed.<\/p>\n

The amended complaint also provides at least one financial tidbit; Deel says it has been profitable for years and is generating over $1 billion in annual revenue.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Rippling says that the company is looking into the specific allegations of how the employee gathered product intelligence as described in the complaint. The spokesperson tells us that \u201cRippling is unwavering in our commitment to fair competition and the highest ethical standards. We expect full compliance as described clearly in our written policies.\u201d<\/p>\n

The spokesperson also alleges that the revised complaint \u201cbacktracks\u201d from some of the assertions in the original, including removing wording that implied Rippling had somehow obtained access to Deel\u2019s board-level information.<\/p>\n

While the lawsuit is an entertaining read (here\u2019s a link to it<\/a>) about the level of a typical Bravo network reality TV show, Deel appears to be attempting to make a tit-for-tat case about corporate spying. But the two sets of allegations are not about the same thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rippling is accusing Deel of paying an employee to gather information from Rippling\u2019s internal network. The employee, who confessed to spying, has testified that he gave Deel information that included sales leads, product roadmaps, customer accounts, names of superstar employees, and whatever else was asked for.<\/p>\n

Deel is accusing Rippling of unfairly learning about its product and features from the product itself as well as the information it gives to its customers. Competitors have been buying each other\u2019s products as a way to keep tabs, one-up and sell against each other since the beginning of time. So it will be interesting to see how the courts handle Deel\u2019s lawsuit \u2013\u00a0 if they rule that such tactics can go too far.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Rippling\u2019s alleged catching of the corporate spy \u2013 which involved a trap, a smashed phone, and a honeypot \u2013 has already slipped into the tech industry\u2019s cultural lexicon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When Y Combinator grad Cotool launched an agentic security platform last month that, among other things, sets up honeypots, its ad was a spoof on how Rippling\u2019s <\/a>corporate spy said he was caught.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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