Basir — Privacy protection for life online

Principle 01

Nothing is claimed that cannot be measured. Effectiveness is reported, not asserted.

Principle 02

You decide what is covered. Protection is something you apply deliberately, never a default applied for you.

Principle 03

It runs where you put it. A small platform you can operate yourself, on your own infrastructure.

The situation

Being online now means being processed

What you put into online environments does not simply sit there. It is collected, indexed and matched by automated systems, operated by parties you never chose, under rules you were never shown. That happens whether or not you agreed to it, and it does not expire.

Observation is automatic

You are not being watched by a person deciding it is worth their time. You are being processed by systems that run on everything, always, at no cost to whoever runs them.

Consent is a formality

Agreeing to a policy is not the same as having a choice. The terms change, the parties change, and what was collected under the old ones does not come back.

It does not expire

Data gathered years ago stays useful to whoever holds it, and gets re-examined every time the tools around it improve. Time is on the collector's side, not yours.

The approach

Raise the cost of processing you

Basir does not promise to make you invisible — nothing honest can. It works to make you meaningfully harder to process automatically, and tells you where that help ends.

Deliberate, not ambient

You choose what is covered, and when

Nothing happens in the background and nothing is decided for you. You sign in, say what you want protected, and get the result back. It is a tool you pick up on purpose, not a service that quietly acquires a permanent view of your life.

Explicit by design. Coverage is something you request, every time.
Scoped narrowly. Only what you hand over is ever involved.
Yours to stop. Nothing continues after you stop asking for it.

Measured, not asserted

Every result comes with its own score

A privacy tool that will not tell you how well it worked is asking for faith. Basir reports what it achieved for each request, assessed independently of the method that produced it — so the number means something.

A score you can read, not a badge that always says “protected”.
Assessed independently of how the protection was produced.
Reported even when it is low — that is the point of measuring.

Plainly

What this does, and what it does not

Most privacy products are sold on what they imply. This one is described by what it can be shown to do.

Stated up front

What it does

Substantially raises the effort required to process you automatically.
Reports how much it achieved, request by request.
Leaves the decision about what is covered entirely with you.
Runs on infrastructure you can operate and inspect yourself.

What it does not

Make you anonymous, or undo anything already collected about you.
Offer a guarantee — determined effort can still defeat it.
Replace good judgement about what you put online in the first place.
Claim a number it cannot show you the measurement for.

We would rather lose a customer to an honest limitation than keep one on a promise that does not hold. If a stronger claim ever becomes true, it will arrive with the measurement attached.

Ownership

Small enough to run yourself

Basir is a compact platform, not a service you rent a window into. It is built to be deployed on infrastructure you control, so the question “who else can see this?” has an answer you can actually verify.

Self-hostable — the whole platform, on your own hardware.
No third party sitting between you and what you are protecting.
Nothing retained beyond what the work itself requires.

SECURE CONNECTION

Details of the connection that loaded this page

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A padlock and https mean your browser verified this site's certificate before showing you anything. A privacy project that could not get that right would not be worth much.

Privacy is not a setting.
It is something you have to defend.