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Massachusetts voted to pass a new privacy rights bill that will ban selling precise geolocation data (applying to residents and visitors alike), require explicit consent for sensitive data, and gives new rights to access and delete personal data. Read the full story: tcrn.ch/3SI0Dm5

A whistleblower complaint filed in 2020 alleges IBM and AT&T covered up repeated breaches by China-nexus APT10, and disclosed none of it to the government. Read the full story: securityboulevard.com/2026/06/ex-ibm…

Verizon's VoLTE network is missing IPsec protection on SIP signaling, leaving users potentially exposed to call interception and spoofing. Verizon promised a fix, then said the requirements weren't actually mandatory, and went quiet. Full story: bit.ly/4f2Op05

The Supreme Court upheld the FCC's fines against Verizon and AT&T for selling customer location data to third parties. The conduct happened nearly a decade ago. Enforcement just now finished. That's how long accountability takes in telecom. Read the full story: bit.ly/3R8L6uR

Telcos run on 3% R&D, compared to tech companies' 16%. Telcos are just spectrum holding companies, collecting rent on that spectrum by outsourcing infrastructure to a fleet of vendors. Read the full piece: sebastianbarros.substack.com/p/the-techco-s…

The UK proposed new telecom security rules in response to Salt Typhoon. Carriers lobbied against them. Independent signaling detection, service account hardening, and more were all dropped or delayed Read the full story: therecord.media/uk-weakens-tel…

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: 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: 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: wired.com/story/the-pent…

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: technologyreview.com/2026/05/13/113…

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: cybersecurity-insiders.com/mobile-phishin…

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: technologyreview.com/2026/04/21/113…

Cape commissioned @HarrisPoll to survey 2,000+ Americans on mobile privacy. The results reveal that despite a rise in secure communications channels like encrypted chat apps, Americans still use phone calls and texts for sensitive interactions, without understanding the full extent cell networks are vulnerable. 🔗Read the full findings → cape.co/blog/harris-po…

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: founderbrew.com/stories/startu…

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: youtu.be/V8U4OE5l6Qw?si…

@CapeCellular founder John Doyle on this week's Crossing the Valley: - first check from @a16z American Dynamism fund - how to secure comms on CCP-compromised cell towers - what caught @USNavy CTO / @DONPEODigital Justin Fanelli's attention and led to big time scale Live now 👇

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

Tidbit: Brett Leatherman, the FBI's top cyber official, just said the federal crisis response group stood up in response to the PRC Salt Typhoon hacks remains active. Leatherman also said there is "no confirmation they are out," though the FBI believes they are contained.

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: 404media.co/fcc-wants-to-k…

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: bit.ly/4dJdyfA