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Tuesday, May 14, 2019

FCC CHAIRMAN AJIT PAI TAKES A BIG STEP TOWARD ENDING ROBOCALLS

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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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

He has not! Quit lying.

Anonymous said...

They are destroying cell phone usage

Most 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