Cloaked vs McAfee

Cloaked is a privacy-masking service with a strong mission, an 'encrypted even from us' architecture claim, and explicit commitments to never sell data, read emails, read texts, or listen to calls — but significant product complexity means multiple features are governed by third-party policies rather than Cloaked's own: the VPN is powered by PureVPN (and PureVPN's policy governs it), financial account connections use Plaid/Stripe/PayPal under their own policies, and the Inbox Cleaner requires Gmail access despite the high-profile 'never read your emails' pledge; additionally, it is a US company governed by Massachusetts law, no security certifications are named, data retention is vague, and it ignores Do Not Track signals.

McAfee is a broad consumer security suite that necessarily collects significant data — including email content for AI scam detection, financial account login credentials for transaction monitoring, and SSN/credit card numbers for identity monitoring — and shares contact and commercial information with advertising partners; its CCPA transparency table is unusually specific and confirms browsing and network activity are not shared for advertising, the VPN explicitly avoids logging originating IPs or DNS queries, and CCPA request metrics are published, but the overall collection scope is extensive, retention is vague, and no security certifications are named in the main policy.