Privacy.

2026·08·27 AI-generated harm against children in 2026 Revisiting the September 2024 post on deepfakes and children. UK law has criminalised creation of intimate deepfakes of minors. Schools have policies. The IWF reports massive growth in AI-generated CSAM. Voice clone fraud is mature. What has actually changed and what to do. 8 min 2026·08·06 Gaming and online communities in 2026: what changed Revisiting the 2023 post on gaming, voice chat, and the communities that look least like social media. Three years of platform safety overhauls, AI moderation, AI voice in games, and the new financial and AI-companion risks that did not exist last time. 7 min 2026·07·16 Children and social media in 2026: the conversation now Revisiting the 2023 post on social media. The platforms have changed. The Online Safety Act has taken effect. Australia banned under-16 social media. The Smartphone Free Childhood movement has changed what is socially possible. 8 min 2026·06·25 School edtech in 2026: the lay of the land Updating the 2023 post on school accounts and edtech, three years and one AI cycle later. What schools collect now, what the regulator has done, and the new category that did not exist in 2023 — AI tutors, AI markers, AI safeguarding tools. 7 min 2026·06·04 The digital footprint we create for children, three years on Revisiting the 2023 post on children's digital footprints, with what has actually changed by 2026 — the Children's Code enforcement, generative AI making the training-set argument operational, and Smartphone Free Childhood moving the position to the mainstream. 7 min 2026·03·10 How to Use Tor: A Practical Guide to Anonymous Browsing Install, configure and use the Tor Browser on Linux and Windows with bridges, security levels and operational discipline. 12 min 2026·02·10 How to Use I2P: A Practical Guide to the Invisible Internet Install and configure the I2P router on Ubuntu, access eepsites, and understand how I2P differs from Tor. 11 min 2025·11·10 How to Use GPG to Secure Your Email Generate a GPG key pair, publish your public key, encrypt and sign email on the command line and in Thunderbird. 14 min 2025·05·13 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. 8 min 2024·11·19 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. 6 min 2024·10·22 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. 7 min 2024·10·15 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. 7 min 2024·09·17 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. 8 min 2024·07·23 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. 7 min 2024·05·21 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. 7 min 2024·04·23 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. 8 min 2023·12·12 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. 7 min 2023·09·12 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. 8 min 2023·08·15 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. 7 min 2023·07·11 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. 8 min 2023·06·13 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. 8 min 2023·05·16 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. 8 min 2023·04·18 The digital footprint we create for our children before they can speak Part 4 of 18, first of the children-focused posts. The photos, the school records, the birthday Facebook posts, the WhatsApp groups, the smart toys. What we lay down for our children, before they have any say. 8 min 2023·03·21 The smart-home dilemma Part 3 of 18. Alexa, Ring, the smart thermostat, the smart TV, the connected fridge. The devices you have invited into your kitchen and what they are actually doing while you sleep. 7 min