The Federal Communication Commission announced plans Monday to instruct major phone companies to update their caller ID services to help combat so-called spoofed robocalls.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will host a summit in July to examine to what degree the industry is implementing new industry-wide standard for caller ID authentication. The new standard is called Signature-based Handling of Asserted Information Using Tokens (SHAKEN) and Secure Telephony Identity Revisited (STIR).
Spoofed robocalls happen when criminals, scammers and others call a person using phone numbers that look familiar but are actually fake.
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He has not! Quit lying.
ReplyDeleteThey are destroying cell phone usage
ReplyDeleteMost of my friends (all of my work mates) refuse to answer the cell phone unless it is a caller who is already known to them