In May, Verizon's CEO proposed moving beyond 4 customer segments to thousands. Some call this "segmentation." We call it “using your data to figure out the max you'll pay and charging you exactly that.” Read more: https://bit.ly/4vHvopK

We've submitted opposing comments to the proposed FCC rule requiring an ID and address for every phone in the US. The goal of the rule is to stop spammers, but having carriers run an ID registry is not the solution. Read our comments: https://bit.ly/3R0Hv1Y

The Pentagon has confirmed adversaries are using commercially purchased location data to target US troops in the Middle East. Read the full story: https://www.wired.com/story/the-pentagon-knew-enemies-could-track-troops-phones-for-years-now-they-are/

AI chatbots are giving out people's real phone numbers on request. Cape's secondary numbers help keep your primary out of the data pools that feed these models. Read the full story: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/13/1137203/ai-chatbots-are-giving-out-peoples-real-phone-numbers

Mobile phishing has surpassed email as the top social engineering threat, with users 40% more likely to engage with a malicious link on mobile than via email. Read the full story: https://www.cybersecurity-insiders.com/mobile-phishing-surpasses-email-cyber-threat-says-research/

Privacy has always depended on friction in the time/effort it takes to connect scattered data points to a real person. LLMs may be eliminating that friction entirely. Read the full story: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/21/1135919/ai-surveillance-privacy-llms-bulk-data/

Cape commissioned The Harris Poll to survey Americans on mobile privacy. The results show that despite a rise in secure comms channels, Americans still use phone calls/texts the most, without understanding the extent cell networks are vulnerable. Read the full findings → www.cape.co/blog/harris-...

Thank you to Founder Brew for featuring our CEO John Doyle alongside other veteran founders on the lessons military life brings to building a company. 🔗 Read the full piece: https://www.founderbrew.com/stories/startup-founders-veteran-military-lessons

Cape CEO John Doyle joined Crossing the Valley to talk about building a privacy-first carrier from scratch, from our $5M seed that became $50M to go live, to how we're becoming America's answer to Huawei. Full episode: https://youtu.be/V8U4OE5l6Qw?si=lnJiyNGkT-o_eDiA

Cape is honored to be named a winner of Fast Company's 2026 World Changing Ideas Awards! See the full writeup: https://www.fastcompany.com/91549081/cape-world-changing-ideas-2026

See what the ACLU, EFF, and Cape have to say about the FCC's new rule requiring telcos to collect government IDs for every phone line: www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to...

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed SB 338 into law, making the state the third to ban the sale of precise geolocation data. The law takes effect July 1 and covers data that pinpoints a user within a 1,750-foot radius. 🔗 Full Story: https://bit.ly/4dJdyfA

SCOTUS heard arguments in Chatrie v. United States, a case over geofence warrants, which let police demand location data on every device in an area with no specific suspect. A outright ban is unlikely, but some limits may follow. Decision expected early summer. 🔗 Full story: https://nyti.ms/4nWncyE

A Florida woman's phone went silent. Minutes later, someone had used her number to reset passwords and drain her accounts--a textbook SIM swap attack. 🔗 Read the full story: https://www.foxnews.com/tech/sim-swap-scam-drained-florida-womans-bank-account-minutes

Google's reCAPTCHA now requires Play Services to pass verification, which means de-Googled phones like GrapheneOS fail by default. Choosing a privacy-first OS shouldn't mean getting locked out. These alternatives should be accommodated, not penalized. 🔗 Read the full story: https://bit.ly/4urTtj3

EPIC audited 38 major data companies and found opt-out forms are deliberately built to fail. What if opt-out was the default? At Cape, it is. We don't collect your data to begin with. Read the full story: https://bit.ly/4dI6b81

With ~$200 of hardware and a few silent calls, an attacker can confirm your location using standard 4G/5G protocol behavior. Cape's IMSI rotation shifts your paging timeslot regularly, cutting off tracking at the network level. Read the full post: https://bit.ly/4x33i9i

"Price lock" language is used by carriers to convince you to stay, but most price locks don't cover taxes, fees, and surcharges. At Cape, the price you see is the price you pay. We absorb all taxes and fees, so you know what you're paying each month. 🔗 Read the breakdown: https://bit.ly/4tZHauB

We're excited to announce our support for Surveillance Watch, who is mapping the global surveillance industry so the rest of us can understand it, and @kagi.com, a user-funded search platform with no ads or tracking, and free for Cape subscribers for 3 months. Read more: www.cape.co/blog/on-buil...

Ad-based search optimizes for engagement, not accuracy. @kagi.com flips the model: user-funded, no ads, no tracking. Just results. We're proud to partner with Kagi to provide all #Cape subscribers with Kagi Pro free for three months. Learn more: www.cape.co/blog/on-buil...

The surveillance industry is vast and deliberately opaque. Surveillance Watch maps out the companies involved, and their connections and reach, so the rest of us can see what we're actually up against. We're proud to support their work. Learn more: cape.co/blog/on-building-a-better-stack

The Supreme Court is deciding if the FCC can fine carriers for selling user location data. Ten years after selling customer data, enforcement remains uncertain. No matter how SCOTUS rules, at #Cape, we believe cellular networks should be private by design. 🔗 Full Story: https://bit.ly/4ulXLJi

A period tracking app secretly shared users' reproductive health data with Meta to build and profit from ad profiles. Big tech isn't the only one doing this. Your carrier knows where you sleep, who you call, and where you go. Learn more: https://bit.ly/42kWCWg 🔗 Full Story: https://bit.ly/4tra6e7

Researchers identified a hack-for-hire group that targeted journalists, activists, and government officials across the Middle East and North Africa via phishing to access iCloud backups and Signal accounts, and deployed Android spyware to take over devices. Full story: https://tcrn.ch/4u0FwZV

Another excellent report by @citizenlab.ca documenting surveillance vendors using the global telecom system to track and spy on people, without ever hacking a phone, employing spyware, or phishing for credentials. 🔗 Read the report: citizenlab.ca/research/unc...

The House passed a 10-day FISA 702 extension this morning, sending it to the Senate ahead of Monday's deadline. At #Cape, we believe privacy and public safety can coexist. Read more about our law enforcement policy here: www.cape.co/blog/cape-la...

#Cape was featured in Times Square this morning on the Nasdaq Tower to celebrate our Series C announcement!

Salt Typhoon has lived in US networks for years, but because carriers collect, sell, and lose customer data all the time, the hack feels like another drop in the bucket. Public apathy may be stalling a push for better security. Cape isn't waiting for a push. 🔗 Full Story: https://bit.ly/4svFNT9

Meta is rolling back E2E encryption for IG DMs in 2026, citing safety concerns and low adoption. Critics suggest the move may be driven by AI training and ad targeting interests; highlights the ongoing challenge of balancing privacy with safety responsibilities. 🔗 Full Story: https://bit.ly/4tH1gtb

A new hacking tool known as DarkSword is targeting iPhones by hacking devices on iOS 18 that visit infected websites. 🔗 Full Story: https://www.wired.com/story/hundreds-of-millions-of-iphones-can-be-hacked-with-a-new-tool-found-in-the-wild/

FBI confirmed they're buying location data from private brokers. Agencies typically must get a warrant to demand private info about a person, but recently, they’re skirting this step by purchasing data from tech companies and phone carriers. 🔗 Full Story: https://tcrn.ch/4bVWEIn

FISA Section 702 is up for renewal on April 20th. Some say it's a shield against foreign threats, but privacy advocates say the "incidental" collection of Americans' data has turned it into a domestic spying tool. 🔗 Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/article/section-702-surveillance-law.html

#Cape’s Ruddy Wang joins Lightning News to break down why your mobile carrier is your biggest privacy leak, and how Cape is building a reimagined cellular service experience that treats privacy as the product, rather than a feature. Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=speP...

#Cape CEO @jdcape.bsky.social joins Navy CTO Justin Fanelli and David Ulevitch on a16z Deep Dives to discuss Navy technology adoption cycles, the Salt Typhoon breach, and how Cape is building a secure alternative to traditional telco. Watch the full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9iO...

A breach at Verizon retailer Russell Cellular allegedly exposed the personal data of 6.3M people. It’s a reminder that your data is only as secure as a carrier's weakest third-party link. 🔗 Full Story: https://cybernews.com/security/russell-cellular-data-data-breach/

🎉 Announcing our $100M Series C. We’ve made incredible strides across our govt, enterprise, and consumer sectors this year, but we’re just getting started. Read more from our CEO, @jdcape.bsky.social: www.cape.co/blog/announc...

🚀 $100M Series C. Proud to announce our latest funding round, co-led by @baincapvc.bsky.social and IVP. Read more: www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Cape and Rakuten Mobile partnered to support a Japan-US military exercise providing secure comms for joint command and control between US and Japan forces, utilizing Rakuten's Open RAN infrastructure and Cape’s secure mobile network. Full details: www.lightreading.com/open-ran/rak...

Command and Control isn't just radios and satellites anymore. Ukraine proved that the modern battlefield runs on commercial cellular. By blending tactical traffic with civilian data, it lets operators hide in plain sight. Cape’s Drosten Fisher broke down the shift at #WEST2026.

#Cape is live on buses in DC, send us a photo if you spot them! 📸

Last-Mile Encrypted Texting is here. No more relying on unencrypted SMS for sensitive messages or OTPs with #Cape 🔗 Read more: www.cape.co/blog/product...

🎉 #Cape has launched Secondary Numbers as an Experimental Feature in the Cape app! Subscribers get 2 free additional real phone numbers for SMS/MMS. No more insecure VoIP workarounds. 🔗 Read more: https://www.cape.co/blog/product-feature-secondary-numbers

Introducing Disappearing Call Logs. Other carriers store your call and text logs for years, creating a massive trail of digital exhaust. #Cape is built to forget. We delete your CDRs after just 1 day. 🔗 Read more here: https://www.cape.co/blog/product-feature-disappearing-call-logs

🔓 Today is Data Privacy Day! To see if anyone actually reads the fine print, Cape and @proton.me hid an all-expenses-paid trip to Switzerland inside our Privacy Policy. Someone found it in just two weeks. Read the full story: www.cape.co/blog/easter-...

🚀 Cape's Beta is over. We're officially live, and bringing a new standard for mobile privacy. 🔗 Read more: https://www.fastcompany.com/91481000/this-new-privacy-focused-phone-service-is-designed-to-keep-your-phone-from-getting-hacked

🎉 Cape’s Open Beta is over! We are now live for general availability, with several new features and updates, and a lot more coming soon. http://cape.co/blog/beta-is-over-cape-is-live

We hid a free trip to Switzerland in our Privacy Policy to see if anyone was looking. It only took two weeks for one sharp reader to win. The full story: https://cybernews.com/privacy/cape-mobile-privacy-policy-easter-egg-switzerland-trip/

"America’s enemies are real enough – our own red tape should not be one of them." Read the full piece by Cape CEO @jdcape.bsky.social: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2026/01/china-hacked-our-mobile-carriers-so-why-is-the-pentagon-still-buying-from-them/

Identifier Rotation feature is NOW LIVE for Cape users on select devices—appear as a new person on the network every 24 hours, disrupting tracking and profiling. Update your Cape app, and check Experimental Features. Read more about how it works here: cape.co/blog/product...

FCC has officially voted to eliminate minimum telecom security standards implemented in response to the Salt Typhoon hacks. Cape's secure network will still be here, with or without regulation. https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/fcc-eliminates-telecom-cybersecurity-requirements/806052/