Over the last few months, we have seen a steady stream of headlines regarding data breaches, encryption rollbacks, and surveillance concerns across the tech industry. While these stories span different Big Tech companies and platforms, they point to a singular, uncomfortable reality: your privacy is a secondary feature that can be modified, limited, or turned off.
- Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Vulnerable to "DarkSword" Exploit: A sophisticated "full-chain" exploit discovered in the wild can fully compromise iPhones, allowing attackers to bypass security to steal files and record audio.
- Instagram to Remove End-to-End Encryption for DMs: Meta announced it will discontinue the option for encrypted private messages on Instagram this May, citing low user adoption for the non-default feature.
- Epstein Files Reveal How Google Responds to Subpoenas: A recent document release highlights the sheer volume of sensitive user data (including location history and search terms) that tech giants provide in response to legal requests.
- Starlink Updates Policy to Train AI on Consumer Data: A quiet update to Starlink’s privacy policy now allows the company to use customer account information and metadata to train its internal AI models.
- Google Settlement May Limit Real-Time Bidding Data Leaks: Following a legal settlement, Google may be forced to give users more control over how their personal data is broadcast to third-party advertisers during ad auctions.
- Lawsuit Claims Meta Can Access "Private" WhatsApp Chats: A new lawsuit alleges that Meta maintains the technical ability to see WhatsApp messages, challenging the company’s long-standing claims of total end-to-end encryption.
More News From Cape
At Cape, we operate with privacy as our first principle, redesigning the telco experience to ensure your identity stays yours:
- Privacy, Resilience, and Reinventing the Cellular Network | Cape CEO on a16z: Cape CEO John Doyle discusses how his previous work at Palantir exposed the deep security flaws in commercial cellular networks, and how those insights led him to build a hardened alternative to protect both high-consequence government work and everyday users.
- This Cell Carrier Works Like A Bitcoin Wallet To Prevent SIM Swap Attacks: Cape's Head of Consumer Growth Ruddy Wang pulls back the curtain on how traditional carriers profit from your most sensitive information, like what you search, where you sleep at night, and who your closest friends and family are, and how we’ve built the only mobile carrier that treats privacy as the product, not a feature.
- Telecom Insider Explains What Your Carrier Actually Sees (Cape Interview): David Dunn, Chief Architect at Cape, joined Techlore for a technical deep dive into the "black box" of cellular security, and why cellular networks remain a massive, unaddressed vulnerability for most users. He breaks down exactly what carriers see about their customers, the mechanics of network-level tracking, and what really happens behind the scenes when you make a phone call.
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