By Sebastian Scandura It is the disappearance of the people who know what good looks like. Following our recent conversations, I was asked a blunt question. How are we managing the increasing use, and overuse, of AI in Australia? The honest answer is: not well enough. Not because AI is the enemy. It is not. AI is already useful. It is already embedded. It is already producing outputs that would have taken a junior analyst, consultant, policy officer, lawyer, project officer,

A few weeks after Privacy Awareness Week, the conversation most Australians never had Privacy Awareness Week came and went between the 4th and 10th of May. If you didn't notice, you weren't alone. The campaign lived almost entirely on LinkedIn, traded between privacy officers, compliance leads, and a few law firms. Even the heavyweights of the federal cyber community leaned in: the Australian Signals Directorate posted into the feed, the Office of the Australian Information C

On the fragility of what we store, the silence of those who could act, and the questions we have stopped asking. There was a time when your photos lived in a shoebox. Faded edges. Handwriting on the back. Yours. No one could take them from you overnight. No algorithm could decide, without explanation, that you had violated a policy you never read, and lock the box forever. That time is gone. Most of us handed it away without noticing. This is the second Field Note in this ser