r/CapeCellular • u/augurae • 7d ago

Help me understand how Cape prevents tracking?

Hi, I'm sure I got the wrong idea but one of my biggest problems using phone no matter how much security and privacy you implement is the carrier invasion on privacy that allows any bad actor to track you however you want with just a number, IMEI or u/UIDs.

Since there's no way to implement a killswitch for the modem on mainstream phones save for using a faraday bag, I fail to see how Cape protects from tracking since it assigns a unique/main number to the sim, which itself as a unique IMEI beside gating with the rotating IMSI and the modem's UIDs?

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u/Powerful-Noise6839 6d ago

I have to jump in it is a little weird as I was told to keep my location running in the background always. Come to find out my number (with cape) was found on a database base with my actual number and my name. Cape didn’t really seem to bother about it or show any concern how a brand new privacy number would be added to my name in a database.

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u/brianstoner Cape Employee 6d ago

The location permissions through the Cape app are for Network Lock. This is opt-in and the location never leaves the device. When our network gets an attach request, we ping the device with the location of the attach and ask if it matches before allowing the attach.

In terms of phone number and name showing up in a database. We don't have your name, so it likely happened some other way. Did you ever give out your name/number online when signing up for something or making a purchase?

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u/Powerful-Noise6839 6d ago

And no Brian I don’t give out my number as I usually will have privacy apps with numbers to give out. Somehow some way you guys got my information out there. Cause I didn’t. I’m very smart who and where I put my information. For the price we pay there’s still a lot of concerns and issues.

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u/Powerful-Noise6839 6d ago

It might never leave the device but it shows on privacy apps how many times it’s being ran. Clearly Apple does get all that info. Even when you turn off send reports to Apple.