PRIVACY · BY DESIGN, WITH LIMITS STATED

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

Basir is a privacy project. It exists to help people keep some ground back in online environments that are built to observe them — and to be straight about exactly how much ground that is.

Today that means protecting the faces in your photos and videos against AI tools, with a video editor to prepare them before you publish.

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The Basir editor: a video with automatic captions
Principle 01
Nothing is claimed that cannot be shown. Each result says plainly what was done to it.
Principle 02
You decide what is covered. Protection is something you apply deliberately, never a default applied for you.
Principle 03
You know where your files go. Our own server, and a GPU that is rented only while it works on them.
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.
Exporting a video and choosing how strongly to protect it
Reported, not asserted

Every result says what was done

A privacy tool that hides what it did is asking for faith. For each file, Basir reports how many frames had a face it could protect and which were left unchanged because no face was found — instead of a badge that always says “protected”.

  • Frames protected, counted for every file.
  • Frames without a face reported, not hidden.
  • “No face found” said plainly when there was nothing to protect.
The Jobs page: what is queued, being protected and ready
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.
  • Tells you, file by file, what was protected and what was not.
  • Leaves the decision about what is covered entirely with you.
  • Tells you where your files go and how long they are kept.

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.

Where your files go

A short, plain answer to “who else can see this?”

Basir is a compact platform on our own server. The heavy work — protecting the faces — runs on a powerful GPU that we rent only while it works on your files and release afterwards. Your files are sent to it for that job and nothing else.

  • Your originals are deleted right after processing; protected files after two days.
  • Editor projects stay in your browser — they are not uploaded to us.
  • Nothing retained beyond what the work itself requires.
Where your files go: your browser, our server, and a rented GPU
SECURE CONNECTION

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Take back a little ground

Access is limited while the project is small. Tell us what you are trying to protect and we will tell you honestly whether Basir helps.

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