Now Deel is accusing Rippling of spying by ‘impersonating’ a customer

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. 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’s lawsuit alleges misappropriation of trade secrets, tortious interference, unfair competition, and more, largely based on the spying allegations. 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. This amended complaint offers more details on what Deel means by that. Specifically, it alleges that one of Rippling’s employees, who holds the job title of Competitive Intelligence “spent six months impersonating a legitimate Deel customer to gain unauthorized access to Deel’s systems to ... Read full article.