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The Federal Communications Commission announced today the Commission will release robocall and telemarketing consumer complaint data weekly to help developers build and improve "do-not-disturb" technologies that allow consumers to block or filter unwanted calls and texts. The data, including originating phone numbers of telemarketers and automated robocalls, will be released and available on the FCC's Consumer Help Center's website.
"Consumers want and deserve effective tools to empower them to choose the calls and texts they receive. This data will help improve do-not-disturb technologies so they can provide the best service for consumers," said Alison Kutler, chief of the FCC's Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, which manages consumer complaints. "As we encourage providers to offer these services, and as the Commission recently made clear that there are no legal barriers to doing so, we continue to look for ways to help facilitate important consumer tools."
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 25 2015, @03:12AM
My next project will be to grab that list of phone numbers for telemarketers and merge it with my Asterisk blacklist table! Anybody else forgot to set a time limit for voicemails and then discovered 59-minute-long robo-messages that came in overnight? Even with a five minute limit in place, we still get lots of politically sponsored phone spam. It really eats into our monthly trunk allotment...
(Score: 1) by anubi on Sunday October 25 2015, @04:33AM
I was not aware of this "asterisk" FreePBX. [freepbx.org].
Thanks for the post!
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