Privacy — writing by Peter Bassill

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Personal, family and boardroom privacy, and keeping children safe online. 47 articles

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  Full-Disc Encryption with LUKS on Ubuntu

  If someone takes your machine, encryption is the difference between a hardware loss and a data breach. LUKS makes it a checkbox at install time.

  • 14 October 2025
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  Cross-tenant intelligence: the privacy architecture problem

  Post 12 of the AI series. The architecture that turns one customer's experience into another's protection — without exposing either to the other. The privacy engineering problem nobody in the LLM space is talking about, and EmilyAI's seven principles.

  • 13 May 2025
  • 8 min read
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  Passing it on: to the next director, to your children

  Part 18 of 18, the closing post. The privacy work you have done over the last two years has to outlive you in the role. How to write it down, how to teach it, and how to make sure the people who inherit it can actually use it.

  • 19 November 2024
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  Building a personal privacy posture

  Part 17 of 18. Sixteen posts of specifics, condensed into a posture rather than a list. The five sentences that should govern personal privacy for a board director and their household. How to keep it current.

  • 22 October 2024
  • 7 min read
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  The basics you can pick up and walk away with: physical security and social media

  Screen locks, premises, disposing of old kit, USB drives, social media account security, and the risks of oversharing. The unglamorous but high-leverage controls that prevent entire categories of attack.

  • 15 October 2024
  • 7 min read
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  The AI year, deepfakes, and what changes for children

  Part 16 of 18, last of the five children-focused posts. Generative AI changed what 'a picture of a child' can mean. What parents should be alert to in 2024, what is genuinely new, and the practical conversations that still work.

  • 17 September 2024
  • 8 min read
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  Hotels, conferences, and public Wi-Fi

  Part 15 of 18, third and last of the travel posts. The day-to-day mechanics — the hotel network, the conference Wi-Fi, the airport lounge, the coffee shop on the way to the meeting. The small kit and habits that compound over a year of travel.

  • 23 July 2024
  • 7 min read
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  Clean devices and selective sync

  Part 14 of 18, second of three travel posts. The clean travel laptop and phone, what to put on them, what to leave at home, and how to remain effective without exposing the whole work footprint.

  • 21 May 2024
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  International travel and jurisdictional risk

  Part 13 of 18, first of three travel posts. What actually changes when you cross a border — customs powers over devices, foreign-state interest, the practical implications of which countries you are visiting. Without the paranoid framing.

  • 23 April 2024
  • 8 min read
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  Assistants, drivers, and household staff

  Part 11 of 18. The people around a senior board director are, for practical purposes, part of the security boundary. The standing rules that protect everyone — the executive, the staff, the relationship — without becoming surveillance.

  • 12 December 2023
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  Financial and identity hygiene at home

  Part 9 of 18. Credit freezes, the paper post, joint advisors, mortgage and bank communications, the family-office channel. The unglamorous half of personal privacy that, when neglected, costs the most.

  • 12 September 2023
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  Photo backup, family chat groups, and the extended family

  Part 8 of 18. iCloud, Google Photos, WhatsApp family chats, grandparents on Facebook. The household network you actually live in is wider than the four walls of the house. What to do about it without becoming the family killjoy.

  • 15 August 2023
  • 7 min read
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  Gaming, voice chat, and the communities that look least like social media

  Part 7 of 18, fourth of five children-focused posts. Roblox, Fortnite, Minecraft, Discord. The environments where British children spend more time than they spend on social media, what the risks actually look like, and what to do.

  • 11 July 2023
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  Children, social media, and the parent's reasonable role

  Part 6 of 18, third of five children-focused posts. The conversation about social media most parents avoid, written for the board-director parent who wants to be present without being absurd.

  • 13 June 2023
  • 8 min read
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  School accounts and edtech: the parent's reasonable role

  Part 5 of 18, second of five children-focused posts. Schools collect a remarkable amount of data on children. Some of it is necessary; some of it is not. What a board-director parent should ask, and what they are entitled to.

  • 16 May 2023
  • 8 min read