Blockchain couldn't stop TXT spam in India, regulator now trying AI India's Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRAI) has announced a fresh crackdown on TXT spam – this time using artificial intelligence, after a previous blockchain-powered effort delivered mixed results. The TRAI's approach to managing spam – or Unsolicited Commercial Communication (UCC) as it prefers to describe it – saw the …
Good Heavens, who could possibly have foreseen *that* outcome? You would think these people care not one jot for the law!
Rapscallions[1] indeed.
> implementation of UCC detect system
Actually trying to detect the spam? Sounds like something they should have been attempting sooner.
On the other hand, using "ML(Machine Language)" - good for them, they should be able to make it run fast without all those silly HLL abstractions; but what will it do for their delivery dates?
[1] sounding properly like El Reg there, house point all around.
That's a kudos from me too :)
I was at my mum's house when the phone rang. I heard her say "Yes, that sounds good. But I don't deal with that can I pass you to my PA?"
When I spoke to the lovely fellow rapscallion[1], I suspected he was out of town, maybe even a +91er (shocker!). I was very eager to have him help with the virus problem that he'd detected. Sadly, I explained, we couldn't do business with non-UK orgs. Obligingly, he gave a London address. Thank you, now you're close enough! Explaining that under the Telecommunications Act it was an illegal call, my fun and games ended promptly. Aw!
[1] Word of the day!
"Plenty of spam TXTs and calls also originate in India – or appear to do so – and pop up outside the nation as a contact from someone with a +91 prefix on their phone number."
Mostly, now, they display what appears to be a legitimate Australian mobile number - so I no longer answer calls that aren't in my contacts (if it is genuine, they will leave a message).
> Someone really got sold a bill of goods by salesmen who knew the right buzzwords!
Come on, somebody who believes anyone in their right mind will ever go through the hassle to opt-in to be spammed silly is dumb enough to be sold anything at any price. Infinite business opportunities.
Movers are arriving momentarily to transport the Golden Gate Bridge to its proud new owners.
Complaints persist, however, because plenty of unregistered telemarketers haven't signed up for the regulator's app. These rapscallions continue to send spam, and to make unwanted phone calls.
Phone calls aren't that hard to trace and find the source. What about hitting those telemarketers hard?
== Bring us Dabbsy back! ==
> just make telemarketing illegal full stop
And add the right ways to enforce it, because without that it's just empty words. Telling criminals they're doing something illegal isn't very productive, as are the purely symbolic fines on fly-by-night disposable companies. Heavy prison terms for the owners should do the trick.
Agreed. Yet the jurisdiction boundaries are a stopper on that.
I'd like to see prison applied to C-Suite execs that just screw a company, and their customers. Go to the wall. (Dildo Hardon comes to mind.) One shouldn't really be able to keep going from one golden parachute to another. You screwed up. You're no longer permitted to influence an organisation. Stay out. If you persist, or try to be clever and use a proxy, send them down. Fines are redundant.
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