FILED Podcast

CKAN Project co-steward and Link Digital Executive Director Steven De Costa joins Anthony and Kris to discuss how information governance fits into the open data world. Could information governance provide the tools to ensure open data is useful for governments now, and in the AI future. And would a Croissant help? Learn more (including a full transcript) on the RecordPoint site.

AI consultant Rob Williams joins us to discuss the rise of shadow AI, and what companies can do to combat it.To learn more about the episode, including a full transcript, check out the RecordPoint website.

Do you know how much unstructured data you have? If you’re like most organizations, probably not. That’s a big problem. According to some reports, unstructured data – data that does not have a pre-defined structure, like documents or media files – makes up as much as 90% of the typical organization’s data. Understand what is in this data has long been an issue for organizations but, as this week’s guest – RecordPoint’s Head of Product Joe Pearce explains – resolving it has become much more urgent thanks to the advent of Generative AI.To learn more about the episode, including a full transcript, check out the RecordPoint website.

What should companies be doing right now to get ready for future AI laws?  If you comply with privacy regulations, are you set up well for AI laws when they are inevitably passed? And just how big an emphasis should be placed on compliance, over – say – ethics, when it comes to AI? To discuss the answers to these questions, Anthony and Kris are joined by Paul Sonntag, a 15-year veteran of the security, privacy, and compliance space. Stick around to learn why goons – big guys in black suits with blank expressions – are an essential component of deciding when and how to use technologies like AI.To learn more about the episode, including a full transcript, check out the RecordPoint website.

Much has happened in the short time since the end of FILED Season 2 in December. To kick off the new season, Kris and Anthony get together to discuss the biggest issues, including the Trump administration’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency and its access to government data, the introduction of DeepSeek, and the evolution of AI policy in the US federal government and the wider world. Read more on the website.

It's the finale of FILED Season 2, so Anthony and Kris take a walk through memory lane, reviewing their favorite clips and discussing the themes and events from a busy year in privacy, cybersecurity, governance, records, and AI.Learn more, including a full transcript, on the RecordPoint website.

Lucid Privacy Group founder Colin O’Malley discusses how he helps organizations to right-size their privacy function to respond to the unrelenting pace of change in the privacy landscape.Learn more, including a full transcript, on the RecordPoint website.

Cassie Findlay, Principal at elevenM Consulting, and Chris Brinkworth, Director at Civic Data, join Anthony and Kris for an analysis of the first tranche of reforms to Australia’s Privacy Act. Learn more, including a full transcript, on the RecordPoint website.

Clayton Utz partner Brenton Steenkamp, leading the firm’s cyber and data governance practice, says no matter how well-prepared organizations think they are for a cyberattack, in reality they are far from it. And when the attack comes, they are caught like a rabbit in the headlights. Learn more, including a full transcript, on the RecordPoint website.

DataCo co-founder Danny Tyrell joins the podcast to discuss how his company helps companies to learn more about their customers in a privacy-preserving way, by connecting them with trusted data sources. At the core of this is maintaining customer trust, and Danny, Anthony, and Kris go deep on what trust means in the context of this technology, as well as how privacy legislation plays a part, and whether there is a place for data brokers. Read more, including the full transcript, on the RecordPoint website.