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I'm always flabbergasted at seeing how these things are handled in America. Long ago in the country where I live, the regulator: - set up an opt-out central r
by rapht 5y ago
I'm always flabbergasted at seeing how these things are handled in America.
Long ago in the country where I live, the regulator:
- set up an opt-out central register where the
owner of any phone number can freely declare they do not want any unsollicited calls
- made this register freely available to all businesses
- required from telcos that they make it easy for customers to report infringing calls
- made telcos liable if they do not swiftly take action whenever they have 'sufficient' reports (10s not 1000s) that one of their clients is infringing on the opt-out list, including by cutting off all of the client's numbers.
... does not seem such a big deal to set up.
- jjcon 5y agoNobody is talking about sales pitches - the FTC in the USA also has a do not call list. This is about scam callers that set up pop up operations make a few bucks close down and repeat. This happens just as much here in the EU. Most of these calls do not even come from the EU/USA though they do have operatives here. The vast majority of victims are older people that don’t understand they are being scammed.
- CivBase 5y agoAll of the scam/robocalls I get come from India and use spoofed numbers. We have do-not-call lists, but why should a telco across the world care about it? How can we even identify the relevant telco when the scammers are routing VoIP calls through spoofed numbers?
- MiddleEndian 5y agoPhone companies know if it's spoofed or VOIP. They could just not forward spoofed numbers, or inform your cell phone that it's a spoofed number so you can silently block it on your end (or auto-respond with your own bot that pretends to be a person lol). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26803498 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26803498 seems like the FCC is doing something like this, how it will work is TBD I guess.