Collaborate Disseminate
US carriers haven’t been doing enough to block robocalls voluntarily. The Federal Communications Commission’s response? Fine – we’ll make you. Continue reading Phone carriers may soon be forced to adopt anti-robocall tech
In episode 107 for February 10th 2020: preventing tax identity theft and other tax scams, the FTC taking a stand against companies that support robocallers, and details on the incident where videos from Google Photos were being sent to strangers. ** Sh… Continue reading Preventing Tax Identity Theft, FTC and Robocallers, Google Photos Incident
It put 19 internet-calling companies on notice that helping illegal robocalls is illegal. It has sued before, and it can do it again. Continue reading FTC warns VoIP providers that help robocallers: we can and will sue
It’s a drop in the “4.7 billion robocalls placed per month” bucket, but hey, it’s better than nothing! Continue reading FTC crackdown targets operators behind 1 billion robocalls
Wrist slaps and paltry fines may not be what most of us were hoping for in retribution for billions of robocalls and countless scams. Continue reading FTC slams the phone down on quartet of robocallers
This week, Robocallers get huge fines for spoofing phone numbers, 100,000 home routers used for Brazilian hacking scam, 85 reasons to update your Adobe PDF software, 9 NAS bugs open LenovoEMC, 5 major Security updates for Chrome extensions, and Twitter… Continue reading Robocallers, Netsparker, and LenovoEMC – Hack Naked News #191
Fewer than 40 call centers responsible for a majority of the unwanted calls. Continue reading Good news—the robocalling scourge may not be unstoppable after all
Too bad it’s only for Nexus and AndroidOne devices. Also, a screeching warning klaxon would have been a nice touch. Continue reading Google adds robocall warnings to Phone app