With more deals--and therefore more advisers, lawyers and other people with inside knowledge of what is to come--regulators are concerned that material information is leaking out and being used improperly.
In the book, I sketch out a few of the early examples of anti-leaking technologies, including those described in a request for proposals launched by the Pentagon research arm known as the Defense Advanced Resource Projects Agency in 2010 that suggested methods of monitoring all employees in a firm or agency for leak-like behaviors.