data brokers

Privacy Is Now a $475 Million Business, and That's Kind of a Scandal

John Z Black Mar 23, 2026

Privacy & Digital Rights #privacy #Cape #Cloaked #SS7 #stingray #data brokers #surveillance #MVNO #identity protection

Cape raised $100M to protect phones from Stingrays and SS7 attacks; Cloaked raised $375M to hide your identity from data brokers -- together they're a $475 million indictment of the infrastructure that was supposed to protect you.