"A privacy-centric cellphone carrier called Cape is now officially available across the United States, offering a unique set of features to protect users from surveillance and identity theft. Many cellphone users already use virtual private networks, encrypted messaging apps, and secure password managers to help keep their data safe. But those tools can't always protect against security issues with the underlying cell network itself, and other phone companies don't typically compete on privacy, says Cape CEO John Doyle."
"But Cape, founded in 2022, is designed to protect customers from privacy risks like SIM swapping, where a cellphone number is transferred to a new phone without the owner's permission to intercept sensitive messages like authentication codes, and IMSI catchers, which snoop on phone users by impersonating legitimate cell towers and monitoring the unique international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) codes they transmit."
Cape launched in 2022 and is now available across the United States. The carrier protects customers from SIM swapping by preventing unauthorized transfers of cellphone numbers and guards against IMSI-catcher surveillance that impersonates cell towers and monitors IMSI codes. Cape assisted the Electronic Frontier Foundation to develop detection technology that helped uncover an IMSI-catcher near the 2024 Democratic National Convention. The company does not collect subscriber names, addresses, or Social Security numbers and automatically encrypts customer voicemails so company staff cannot access them. Cape has raised $61 million from venture investors and initially targeted security-sensitive professionals.
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