This has made me wonder.. have any other europeans ever had problems with these?
I don't recall ever having been called by a robot.
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One of the reasons might be that a) robo calls are illegal here, and b) if someone uses them, they are easy to hunt down.
I once got some robocalls, all of the same makeup telling me I had won a car and should call a premium number to claim it (Ha!). I just reported those numbers to the local equivalent of the FCC, and they took it down within days.
If they banned all robocalling, wouldn't that solve it? Can a prioritisation of quality of life over marketing include the phone space? Four US states ban billboards. With an ad blocker, the internet is usable. Nitpicking which tactics can be used in robocalls won't hardly solve the vicious spread of misinformation in this way.
I assume that banning all robocalls requires new legislation, whereas the regulation mentioned here didn't.
Robocalling isn't inherently bad. Utilities and such institutions that have your membership (library, gym, health care etc) should be welcome to use robocalling to notify you of useful info like emergencies or changes to their schedules. It's just the political ads, scams, and sales that need to be made illegal and punishable.
Since we have mail and text messages, robo alli g shlould be outlawed by Geneva Convention.
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Scammers who are just recording their voice: "Oh ok we're good"
The TCPA, a 1991 US law, bans the use of artificial or prerecorded voices in most non-emergency calls "without the prior express consent of the called party."
Prerecorded calls are not allowed too.
Right, so in other words this will change absolutely nothing just like that 1991 law did.
But, my car insurance? Who's going to be telling me about the extended warranty?
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didn't this happen a long time ago under Bill Clinton or something? what the fuck happened?
Good thing Trump has those "crime free zones" in the works.
One of em definitely needs to be around PHONE CALLS.