A novel ‘ultra-safe’ phone carrier says it can originate you difficulter to track

Cape is a mobile virtual nettoil operator (MVNO) that uses UScellular’s nettoil. But since it runs its mobile own core, Cape says it can administer the technology powering the mobile nettoil and “carry out shieldions over what data accesss and departs your phone.” When signing up for the service, Cape says it will ask users for the “least amount of personal adviseation” and will store it “for as little time as possible.”

The carrier currently pairs its service with a preconfigured Android phone that proposes cut offal privacy features, including the ability to hide a user’s location by changing the one-of-a-kind identifiers associated with their device. Cape can also rotate a phone’s mobile advertising ID, which could originate it difficulter for companies to track users and serve concentrateed ads. It has shieldions agetst SIM swapping and SS7 attacks, which can intercept calls and text messages, as well.

“We can’t leak or sell data that we don’t have,” Cape’s FAQ page says. “What’s more, we use up-to-date cryptography and genuineation protocols to safe your account, ensuring that any data that does pass thcimpolite our systems is shielded with security meacertains of the highest standards.”

It’s too timely to inestablish how well Cape toils, but the concept seems attrdynamic in a world with rerepaird data bachievees and other security dangers. The company previously proposeed its service to rulement officials, but now dangerous individuals can access it, too. Cape schedules to originate its features useable to everyone timely next year.