Phones need an automatic "report this call to the ftc" button in their app.
Also, it'd be great if all new numbers were automatically added to the do not call registry and you had to opt in.
@0x56 wouldn’t work with currently available consumer technology. Phones are incapable of determining true origin. It may be possible in the future if and when the FCC’s STIR/SHAKEN approach begins to actually work. It currently only works in very specific scenarios and there isn’t any integration with mobile handsets.
Until we can precisely, and consistently, prevent spoofed phone calls, any progress towards reporting fraud and unwanted calls will be thwarted.
@0x56 the biggest issue with that functionality is the reality that a lot of (legitimate and legal) phone calls/texts are reported as spam/fraud so it’s heavily weighted to prevent legal communications from being blocked.
@SpaceShanks @0x56 An organization representing insurance marketers has looked to capitalize on the ruling in its long-running fight with the Federal Communications Commission over robocalls. After the agency tried to crack down on some of the unwanted, automated contacts, the Insurance Marketing Coalition told a federal judge in August that regulators did not have Congress’s blessing to issue any such rules, citing the Supreme Court’s overturning of Chevron.
https://archive.ph/Gd2Cb
@0x56 well, I have some slightly better news. You know the delete and report option that pops up when receiving unwanted calls/texts?
That actually goes to the carrier and after enough reports they can (choose) to do something about it.