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I grew up in Ireland. Very few robo calls. Why? It's illegal. The solution is not a technical solution, but a legal one.
by rmc 12y ago
I grew up in Ireland. Very few robo calls. Why? It's illegal.
The solution is not a technical solution, but a legal one.
- MichaelGG 12y agoSure. It's mostly illegal in the US,too. But the FCC simply doesn't pursue the matter enough. Even in illegal things, like guys that setup a line pretending to be the IRS, the worst that happens is someone cuts some little account off. It could be different. And as a carrier, I've begged other carriers to push. Have their end user escalate. Get LE involved and get them to go all the way till they find the originator of calls and nail em. But out of the few hundred "complaints" I've seen, only one or two even pretended to care, and none ever really followed up. The US could kill illegal robo dialing, at least a lot if it, just by getting serious and slapping fines down. It's so dumb, that even the FCC put out a prize for the best anti robo dialer tech someone could come up with. It defies explanation.
- rmc 12y agoYes there are 2 kinds of illegal: de jure and de facto. You need it to be illegal both way.
- pktgen 12y agoWe do have a very strong law, the TCPA, that prohibits robocalls to cell phones without prior consent, with a private right of action and a $500-$1,500 _per violation_ (per call at least) penalty. It won't do you much good against scammers, but against actual businesses with assets that could be seized if necessary, it's awesome. (I personally sued a debt collector in small claims court for wrong number robocalls to my cell phone, and settled for the entire amount I was asking, $500 per call.)