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What I really want is an advanced caller id system that encompasses the whole process, in which the "caller" or "sender" never actually has my phone number (or
by enobrev 4y ago
What I really want is an advanced caller id system that encompasses the whole process, in which the "caller" or "sender" never actually has my phone number (or email or mailing address).
I can generate contact-ids on the fly, which I can give out to anyone - public or private. I can generate them for each person I give them to, or for posting on a billboard if I'd like.
When a person adds that id to their contact list, the "system" would notice that I've never set that up the caller to contact me, so I get a notification that "[Caller] would like to contact you". I can set the method and schedule they can contact me:
* Text / Email - Weekdays between 9 and 6pm (work)
* Phone / Text / Email - Any time, Always, Until Disabled (family, friends, etc)
* Phone / Text / Email - Any time until Summer (my kid's school)
* Text-Only - For the next 3 days (maintenence, etc)
* Snail Mail Only - 3 Weeks before election (local politicians)
* Snail Mail Only - Once per month (local grocery)
The caller gets a notification that they can contact me, how, and when, and from then on, they look me up on their devices / apps and hit the "Contact" button. They are then presented with the options I've given them "Sorry, You can only call or text during work hours". "This person only allows text messages at this time".
Some interesting bits about this:
* No contact info for spamming
* No possibility of harassment
* No distractions outside of what I've personally defined as available.
* Commercial / Political entities aren't cut out from people who want to hear from them
* Mail can be forwarded to me anywhere in the world, since the sender would just be sending a package / letter to my id, and not to my actual address. The PO would then send it to whatever address I've most recently set. (no more forwarding address or crap for the people who used to live where I do).
- FrasiertheLion 4y agoRequires massive centralization of data and complicated logic for access control enforcement, which now has to happen for every call.
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- namrog84 4y agoWhat about these edge case scenario. My family member gets lost/confused/hurt whatever, and needs to borrow a strangers phone to call me to help them. I don't know that number and perhaps the family number has memorized my phone number since it hasn't changed in 20 years. Maybe they are a small child 5 years old. How do they get thru this system? The only thing I could think of is if they have an extra 'password code' (4-6+ digits) that they'd need to memorize in addition to the phone number? Alternatively in this system, someone compromises your contactid. And a place that says they are calling your 'auto insurance contact' isnt actually your legit auto insurance contact but a scam auto insurance company? You'd need to be able to easily "reset" these values which could be a big burden on small businesses.