There is this carrier I stumbled upon called Cape, calls itself America’s privacy first carrier.
It claims to offer privacy and security and to only store necessary information.
We don’t collect your name, social security number, address, or other personal information. Any data we do receive (like call logs) is deleted after 60 days.
We secure your account against SIM swaps—attacks to steal your phone number and access your accounts—with modern cryptography protocols.
Our proprietary signaling protection blocks attempts by bad actors to intercept calls and SMS via outdated signaling protocols like SS7.
Voicemails can hold sensitive information like 2FA codes. Cape encrypts your voicemails so only you have access to them.
We don’t collect your name or billing address at checkout, and Cape never sees your credit card details.
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They are also partnered with Proton
Here is a detailed list of what data they collect
They are currently offering a $1.50 trial for one month.
The CEO, John Doyle, was a communications specialist in the U.S. Army and worked for Palantir.
Thoughts?
Many of its mechanisms effectively forced entire industries to require a ton more identification, record-keeping, and access by law enforcement… particularly financial and telecom companies. Or at least that’s how courts and corporate lawyers ultimately interpreted it. Potato, potato.
Though you are right that the act itself was not reauthorized in 2020. I must have missed the final vote, after its initial passage. That said, plenty of its impacts remain as they’ve been spun off into their own bits of legislation. I suppose “post-Patriot-Act America” would have been more accurate for me to say. Apologies!