How about ban non-opt in robocalls?
Comment on FCC bans AI-generated voices in robocalls that can deceive voters
officermike@lemmy.world 7 months agoBecause there are legitimate reasons for some robo calls. Appointment reminders and confirmations, school weather closure announcements, two-factor login verification, etc.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It would be a good trade. Lose the few semi-useful legitimate ones to get rid of the overwhelming majority which are malicious scammers and conservative dickbags.
Mango@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No there isn’t.
Text if school is cancelled. Throw 2fa out the window. Phone numbers are not identity. Text appointment reminders. Literally nothing needs a robo voice that isn’t better as text.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What if you’re blind
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Then you clearly don’t matter to Mango.
reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Blind people use special assistive software on their phones so they can hear text
Mango@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Radio. Text to speech. Having someone who cares about you.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You want your doctor to broadcast your appointment reminders over the radio?
kyle@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Phone numbers actually can be an identity, but generally that’s just business numbers. There’s also a lot of phone numbers that aren’t cell phones and can’t get texts. It’s a lot easier and cheaper for companies to design one system. Depending on the company, they’ll still do text/email reminders for things. Old people like phone calls, so companies need to know their audience too. Again, cheaper to build a single system, so that tends to be the default.
Source: I design call centers for a living, personally done probably 200+ projects over the years, in banking, insurance, retail, transportation, state/local govt, etc.
Mango@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Absolutely not. I can’t use my Amazon account because of this stupid shit.
gapbetweenus@feddit.de 7 months ago
You can do all this things without robo calls. There are no robo calls in Germany for example.
scorpionix@feddit.de 7 months ago
I thought I lived in a pretty backwards part of Germany but your corne must be extremely off the grid!
To just name one example in Germany: Verification via robo call in WhatsApp.
gapbetweenus@feddit.de 7 months ago
Oh, I genuinely didn’t know there are robo calls in Germany, never encountered them - always used sms or other kinds of verification. My bad.
thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Today, history was made. For the first time someone politely admitted they were wrong on the internet
GigglyBobble@kbin.social 7 months ago
Of course there are. I've just won the lottery, for example. Again.