When Collaboration Tools Become Exfiltration Channels: What the Palantir Case Reveals
Last week, Palantir filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court alleging that two former senior engineers used Slack to transfer confidential documents - including healthcare demonstration frameworks, revenue cycle diagrams, and customer deployment plans - the day after one of them gave notice. The documents were allegedly accessed later on a personal phone. The engineers had since joined Percepta, a competing AI startup backed by General Catalyst that emerged from stealth mode in October.