▲ 559 ▼ France is banning unsolicited telemarketing calls starting next week (abcnews.com) submitted 4 weeks ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world 40 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 child) Don’t they just spoof numbers anyway? permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] atro_city@fedia.io 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child) My thoughts exactly. How is it even possible to spoof numbers? There should be a law against that, but I'm afraid that there is some technical reason and banning spoofing might then lead to something like chat control. Who knows. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child) Yeah I think it’s mainly a technical thing. Caller ID wasn’t originally designed with security in mind. Plus it’s a bunch of Indian call centers doing it, so there’s jurisdiction issues making laws pretty useless. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] atro_city@fedia.io 1 point 3 weeks ago I imagine that if a call is coming from outside of France but has a French subscriber number that doesn't exist, it should be possible to block the call entirely. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] atro_city@fedia.io 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child) My thoughts exactly. How is it even possible to spoof numbers? There should be a law against that, but I'm afraid that there is some technical reason and banning spoofing might then lead to something like chat control. Who knows. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child) Yeah I think it’s mainly a technical thing. Caller ID wasn’t originally designed with security in mind. Plus it’s a bunch of Indian call centers doing it, so there’s jurisdiction issues making laws pretty useless. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] atro_city@fedia.io 1 point 3 weeks ago I imagine that if a call is coming from outside of France but has a French subscriber number that doesn't exist, it should be possible to block the call entirely. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child) Yeah I think it’s mainly a technical thing. Caller ID wasn’t originally designed with security in mind. Plus it’s a bunch of Indian call centers doing it, so there’s jurisdiction issues making laws pretty useless. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] atro_city@fedia.io 1 point 3 weeks ago I imagine that if a call is coming from outside of France but has a French subscriber number that doesn't exist, it should be possible to block the call entirely. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] atro_city@fedia.io 1 point 3 weeks ago I imagine that if a call is coming from outside of France but has a French subscriber number that doesn't exist, it should be possible to block the call entirely. permalink fedilink source parent