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It's not insider trading if the information is public.

• Nomentatus 9y ago
  Yes, it can be, and I believe convictions show this - if public means "someone else could have stumbled on the info, in theory" but you were specifically tipped off where to go and when in exchange for cash; which is the kind of worry here. But as well, policy discussions that allow no privacy tend to be very circumscribed.