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How will this be implemented from a technology and policy perspective? The idea is one I am definitely supportive of. My phone rarely comes out of DnD now bec
by bcheung 7y ago
How will this be implemented from a technology and policy perspective?
The idea is one I am definitely supportive of. My phone rarely comes out of DnD now because of the robocallers.
But the devil is in the details. Forcing people to add someone to their contact list before being able to receive calls from them will probably be a bit draconian.
Another possible solution would be that someone can request access to call you and there is some service that verifies their identity and presents that information to you.
"[NAME] is requesting permission to contact you through [VOICE CALLS, EMAIL, TEXT]. Allow/Deny?"
Another good solution might be to add something equivalent to HTTPS / SSL certs, where only secure and verified identities can contact you.
- wavefunction 7y agoI'd settle for non-spoofable CallerID
- bcheung 7y agoYes, that would probably be a good thing. They seriously need to fix the problem of being able to listen to other people's voicemail by merely setting the caller id to the target's cell number and calling them.
- mehrdadn 7y agoWait is that a thing right now?!
- hanniabu 7y agoYou bet it is, I think the first time I tried this was around 2007 or something like that.
- frosted-flakes 7y agoIs that why I need to enter a passcode? I always thought that was stupid.
- TYPE_FASTER 7y agoYes, agree.
- howard941 7y agoLike ANI? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_identification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_identificatio...
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