Cape is a cell digital community operator (MVNO) that makes use of UScellular’s community. However because it runs its cell personal core, Cape says it will possibly management the know-how powering the cell community and “implement protections over what knowledge enters and leaves your telephone.” When signing up for the service, Cape says it is going to ask customers for the “minimal quantity of non-public info” and can retailer it “for as little time as attainable.”
The provider at the moment pairs its service with a preconfigured Android telephone that gives a number of privateness options, together with the flexibility to cover a consumer’s location by altering the distinctive identifiers related to their gadget. Cape also can rotate a telephone’s cell promoting ID, which may make it tougher for firms to trace customers and serve focused adverts. It has protections in opposition to SIM swapping and SS7 assaults, which might intercept calls and textual content messages, as nicely.
“We are able to’t leak or promote knowledge that we don’t have,” Cape’s FAQ page says. “What’s extra, we make the most of trendy cryptography and authentication protocols to safe your account, making certain that any knowledge that does cross by means of our programs is protected with safety measures of the best requirements.”
It’s too early to inform how nicely Cape works, however the idea appears engaging in a world with persistent knowledge breaches and different safety threats. The corporate beforehand provided its service to authorities officers, however now high-risk people can entry it, too. Cape plans to make its options out there to everybody early subsequent 12 months.