Starting today, the Federal Communications Commission requires small operators to implement a special caller ID verification tool to help identify automated callers. announced. Major carriers such as AT&T and Verizon, known as STIR/SHAKEN, FCC rule Adopted in 2020 – has had the same vehicle since last year. The agency initially gave small carriers a more generous deadline of June 2023 to adopt STIR/SHAKEN, but chose to accelerate adoption as it discovered that “a subset of these small voice service providers are due to an increasing amount of illegal automated calling”.
But as a new report from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) notesSimply flagging suspicious automated searches isn’t enough to combat the automated search industry. “The problem is that applying the STIR/SHAKEN methodology only requires that resource providers implement a certificate that shows how confident they are that the caller ID displayed on calls is correct,” the report states. Presumably, this means that calls can still continue. directed Via gateway carriers from abroad where FCC rules do not apply. But as EPIC points out, applying STIR/SHAKEN can help identify spammers, but there is no real metric to measure how effective carriers are at intercepting calls. “The FCC’s pending regulatory efforts will only continue to require providers to have procedures to reduce illegal automated calls,” the report said, “without any meaningful and enforceable requirement for these procedures to be truly effective.”
All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team independent of our parent company. Some of our stories contain affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.