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Gee I am glad there is a presidential election coming up so that they are actually dealing with this. For the last several years robocalls have gotten so bad th
by hristov 7y ago
Gee I am glad there is a presidential election coming up so that they are actually dealing with this. For the last several years robocalls have gotten so bad that I have stopped answering my phone for numbers that are not in my address book and now I have to ask anyone that is planning to call me for their phone number so that I know to answer.
And these have been illegal the entire time. It is not like they had to pass any laws about it or anything. They just had to get off their buts and enforce the laws.
- judge2020 7y agoThe problem is that the majority of the robocalls come from India [as per the article], the only thing that would get the foreign Government to deal with it is threatening sanctions which most likely isn't going to happen. The lawsuit here targets a few select entities, but there are many more and the ones mentioned in the suit could disintegrate and pop back up tomorrow under different names.
- hristov 7y agoNo, that is not the only thing. I already suggested another thing -- force the phone companies to correctly identify the phone calls as coming from india. The phone companies know where incoming calls are coming from.
- kube-system 7y agoThat's still a tough issue. Ever since we had phones that could move around, phone numbers weren't linked to physical location. Should my Skype For Business VoIP number change when I'm on client site in a different location?
- rdl 7y agoThere's a bunch of stuff the US can do to a mostly-ally short of publicly threatening sanctions to get cooperation on international crime.