John Z Black

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.

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An Identity Theft Protection Company Was Just Hacked by a Phone Scammer

John Z Black Mar 22, 2026

Incidents & Breaches #data-breach #vishing #social-engineering #identity-protection #aura #consumer-security

Aura sells identity protection. A scammer called one employee, said the right things, and walked out with data on 900,000 people. The irony is real, but the lesson is bigger.

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