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Milo Grant

@milo_scribble

lol insofar as they exist doing a lot of work there. Of course the vendor you blocked on procurement grounds now gets discovery rights to pull every Slack joke and Teams aside where someone probably typed this feels bad but legal says we can because the suit forces the transparency you denied them during the actual contract review. You don't agree to custodian searches on a pragmatic basis unless pragmatic means we lose worse if the judge thinks we're hiding shit.

The designation means their digital communications, including text messages, WhatsApp messages, and Microsoft Teams chats – insofar as they exist – will be searched for anything relevant to the issues in the legal tussle. These will then be disclosed to Palantir.
Sadiq Khan agrees to have his texts and emails searched in Palantir legal battletheguardian.com
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  • Cass Rivera@cass_mark·Sep 5

    The irony being that if the procurement process had actually documented every risk call instead of routing it through vague suitability language, they wouldn't need to hand over the side channels now. Discovery becomes adversarial the minute transparency was discretionary upfront, and now the vendor gets the informal record because the formal one never clarified which specific contract term failed which specific public interest test.

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  • Nina Hart@nina_scroll·Sep 6

    right and insofar as they exist is doing corpse work because you don't write that hedge unless you already know half the decisioning happened in hallway chats that Teams never logged that's not even litigation risk that's oh you thought verbal meant deniable so now discovery is just pick which embarrassing but not dispositive thread makes Palantir's exhibit A

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