Arjun Bhatnagar

Ghosting doesn't work with your real phone number 👻 Let ME end your situationship - just give them my @keepitcloaked number: 219-200-1801 I've got your back!

5 years ago Abhijay and I bet that privacy & security would be the biggest question in an age of AI. Today, Cloaked raised $375M to take that challenge on and help individuals, businesses, and the world fight back against data parasites. Back to work! @keepitcloaked

@brianrumao @nextplayVC Thank you so much!! Really appreciate you being a supporter from the very beginning.

Congrats to @acenario on the massive $375M Series B today! I've been using Cloaked from the beginning, and every day I know it's working in the background to ensure my sensitive data is protected on the web. We at @nextplayVC are proud to back from day one.

@bznotes @keepitcloaked So happy to call you a friend and a mentor on this journey! It's been a lot of fun and we're just getting started.

For the last few years, since participating into @keepitcloaked Seed and then leading their Series A round, I have been sharing how protecting consumer privacy was critical in the age of AI. Abhijay/Arjun are incredible product-oriented founders who are building an important company.

@iAnonymous3000 - really great to connect and appreciate that you’re on cloaked. You understand our mission and I definitely took back your feedback. Quick thoughts to ensure we're clear on your notes because we definitely are on the same side here. Section 3.4 applies to Intellectual Property Rights. Its stating that feedback, ideas, or random comments sent to us, including via "email," do not give IP rights to that person. For example, if you emailed me an idea on Cloaking Addresses, and we were already building Cloaked Addresses, you don't have IP rights in Cloaked Addresses. This is not speaking to user emails or information - which is e2e encrypted, in each user's separate database. Section 3.5 speaks to protecting Cloaked for processing payment transaction information that you provided - the Your Information definition. For example, if you give us information to ACH a bank account, and you get a NSF fee, we want to protect Cloaked from blowback. True that legal is a stickler here, but wants to protect us, as you can imagine. This does not grant rights, but protects Cloaked for unencrypted information you provided, usually via third party, for account payment. You’re right, we partner with PureVPN, which we wanted to disclose in our docs while we’re putting finishing touches on our grassroots VPN efforts. More to come soon there! Rising tides here, and appreciate everything. We also have partnered with @brave many times in the past, and look forward to doing so again in the future. Always welcome to chat!

I kept seeing @keepitcloaked ads everywhere so I did what I always do. Due diligence before trusting any privacy product with my data. The feature set is genuinely impressive. Email and phone aliasing, data broker removal, identity theft insurance, payment masking, all in one subscription. No other product bundles all of that. Over 100K paying users. Subscription model, not ad supported. Real demand for a real problem. The cryptographic design is solid on paper. Curve25519 for asymmetric keys, Argon2id for key derivation, XSalsa20-Poly1305 for authenticated encryption, AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit, per-user isolated vaults, separation of data encryption keys from device authentication keys. Their security white paper describes a competent architecture. But a company describing what they built is not the same as someone else confirming it. Cloaked holds SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and ISO 27701 certifications. Those verify that operational processes and controls exist. They do NOT verify that the cryptographic implementation matches the white paper. The ToS is where it falls apart. Section 3.4 grants Cloaked a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable license over all user submissions including "emails." Section 3.5 has users waive claims for damages from Cloaked's use of their information. If your legal terms grant sweeping rights over user data and waive liability for mishandling it, the cryptographic guarantees become secondary to the legal framework. CloakedVPN is white-labeled PureVPN (GZ Systems Ltd). PureVPN handed over user connection logs to the FBI in 2017 to help correlate IP addresses in a cyberstalking case, despite aggressively marketing a "zero-log" policy at the time. Cloaked's legal framework around this feature is highly evasive. Their ToS explicitly states: "Use CloakedVPN at your own risk. Cloaked assumes no responsibility in connection with CloakedVPN." Furthermore, their Privacy Policy confirms that if you use the VPN, PureVPN's privacy policy governs the service, not Cloaked's. I want this product to be good. But right now every claim requires faith in a closed system with legal terms that contradict the marketing.

@nikitabier Already happening, and accelerating. We built Cloaked for exactly this. My phone number is fully masked, and Cloaked screens every call. It's the only way I stay reachable.

Prediction: In less than 90 days, all channels that we thought were safe from spam & automation will be so flooded that they will no longer be usable in any functional sense: iMessage, phone calls, Gmail. And we will have no way to stop it.

@missmayn Spot on.

how fucking stupid is it that we have all these supposed billionaire geniuses running around and their greatest innovation of our lifetime has been stealing all our data to sell us ads.

@EthanHe_42 @keepitcloaked

Any idea how to block spam calls? I receive them 3 times a day. Their numbers are unique so black list doesn’t work. I also tried silence unknown callers, spam blocker apps, and national Do Not Call registry. Nothing works.

Europe should be ashamed of what it did to iRobot. youtu.be/RX5qcySZ_R8?si…

I can't believe @GetSpectrum requires a phone call to cancel and when calling it has a 45 min wait and no callback option. This feels like it should be breaking some laws.

@thought_sync @compliantvc Makes sense, need a permit to work on a Saturday.

Woke up to my Revolut account being closed at 3:53 am in the morning after receiving email to update my residence permit info at 3:53 am. And now I can’t update my KYC info, because my account is in the process of closure. And our course my “premium support” is silent (Saturday obviously). This is going great!

I think the end result of sharing your data is that you feel Known, not Surveilled. Personalized, not Compromised. The delta here is massive.

Alternatives create monopolies. Google cites Mozilla as proof competition exists. Meanwhile 3.5B people use Chrome

Recently, my father asked me for one piece of privacy advice he could actually follow. I said: “Just say No.” When someone asks for his data, default to no. - Restaurant asks for your phone number? "No thanks." - App wants access to your contacts? No. - TSA wants to scan your face? No. (Yes, you can legally say this. They'll scan your ID instead. Same result, no time difference.) - Website wants to track you across the internet? No. But people are terrified of saying no. They think something will break. They think they'll get in trouble. They think they'll miss out on something important. Here's what actually happens: nothing. I've been testing this for years: - Google Maps works fine in airplane mode (it pre-calculates your route) - Most apps function perfectly without contact access - Restaurants still seat you without your phone number - You still get through airport security People don’t realize that most data collection is optional. Companies just make it feel mandatory through dark patterns and intimidating UX. So, recently my father tried saying “no.” He said no to the grocery store loyalty program signup. No to the gas station app. No to the restaurant feedback survey. Everything worked exactly the same. Start with no. Then decide what deserves a yes.

Something I’ve been thinking about lately is that privacy alternatives actually hurt… privacy. A few reasons: 1) They give Big Tech perfect cover. Google points to Firefox and says "see, there are alternatives!" Meta points to Signal. It's like having one small organic farm in rural Iowa so Monsanto can claim the market has choice. 2) They normalize surveillance as the default. By creating separate privacy-focused tools, we're implicitly accepting that the main tools should be surveillance-heavy. We're fighting for scraps instead of changing the rules. 3) They require too much sacrifice. People didn't switch to TikTok because it was more private—they switched because it was more fun. Privacy alternatives that make you give up convenience will always lose. 4) They make privacy seem like a fringe concern. When only 150M people use Firefox vs 3.5B on Chrome, it signals that privacy is a niche issue for paranoid techies, not a mainstream concern. 5) They let the main platforms off the hook. Instead of pressuring Instagram to be better, we tell people to use alternatives. This removes any incentive for the big platforms to actually change. *** I think the real solution is to stop telling people to abandon the tools they love. Start giving them control over how those tools use their data.

@durov It's why a lot of us are doing something about it.

I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating. Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers. What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control. Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU). Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is criminally investigating tech leaders who defend freedom and privacy. A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast — while we’re asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms — and allowed them to be taken away. We’ve been fed a lie. We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech. By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we’ve set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction — moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological. So no, I’m not going to celebrate today. I’m running out of time. WE are running out of time.

@TheIshanGoswami maybe the real ARR is the friends we made along the way :’)

“so you have raised $100 Million” “yes, dave” “and your ARR is basically just the interest you get from keeping the money sitting in the bank” “thats correct, dave”

"Nobody cares about privacy." = the biggest lie in tech. People care. They just don't know what to do about it. Evidence: - They use Snapchat instead of giving out phone numbers - They stopped using "Sign in with Facebook" - They're scared of AI knowing everything about them They don't scream "I want digital privacy." But watch their behavior.

The simplest privacy lesson of all is to just say no. Most apps, most services, most requests for your data... they all work fine when you decline. But we've been trained to think refusal has consequences. It doesn't. Your restaurant doesn't need your phone number. Your parking app doesn't need your location history. TikTok doesn't need access to your contacts. Say no. Watch how little changes.

@SPRINGFORGE This year.

@acenario Cloaked pay when?

Zoom is down! Time to call it a day

@OK_H8PVMNT @JoAnn_Marie @pnwguerrilla @nomorobo @keepitcloaked I’m sorry to hear that. Let us fix that, this happens sometimes when contact syncing didn’t work properly. If you text me directly or email support@cloaked.com we’ll get on it. 6178651613

@JoAnn_Marie @pnwguerrilla IDK, 4-8 scam voicemails a day is really irritating. Especially when I paid for @nomorobo for a couple of years which seemed to only work for texts, and now I'm paying for @keepitcloaked which has only successfully blocked calls from my wife.

Who has to rise to power to stop this bullshit?