Re USA Today: Google's version of robocalls has small businesses skeptical

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Richard Shockey <richard () shockey us>
> Date: May 10, 2018 at 2:28:55 PM EDT
> To: <dave () farber net>, ip <ip () listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] USA Today: Google's version of robocalls has small businesses skeptical
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> Needless to say I totally agree with Lauren here.  I was totally horrified when I saw the announcement.
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> That said there is considerable progress on long term solution that cryptographically authenticates calls and 
> ultimately displays that data to the called party.  Its called STIR/SHAKEN and the framework was developed in a 
> partnership between ATIS and the SIP Forum
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> I’m a member of the FCC North American Number Council [NANC] and we just submitted a report to the Commission on what 
> the Industry consensus solution will look like.  It has total support from the usual suspects and Chairman Pai.   
> It’s not a total “silver bullet” but combined with other FCC actions should make a serious dent in the problem if 
> Google and others don’t complicate the problem by crap technology like this. 
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> http://www.nanc-chair.org/docs/mtg_docs/May_18_Call_Authentication_Trust_Anchor_NANC_Final_Report.pdf
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> — 
> Richard Shockey
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> From: Dave Farber <farber () gmail com>
> Reply-To: <dave () farber net>
> Date: Thursday, May 10, 2018 at 11:18 AM
> To: ip <ip () listbox com>
> Subject: [IP] USA Today: Google's version of robocalls has small businesses skeptical
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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: May 10, 2018 at 10:14:27 AM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] USA Today: Google's version of robocalls has small businesses skeptical
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> USA Today: Google's version of robocalls has small businesses skeptical
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> https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2018/05/10/googles-version-robocalls-has-small-businesses-skeptical/596197002/
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>      Lauren Weinstein, a Los Angeles-based technology
>    consultant, says the system can work if Google is upfront
>    about it. "Humans in general don't mind talking to machines so
>    long as they know that they're doing so," Weinstein says. "I
>    anticipate significant negative reactions by many persons who
>    ultimately discover that they've been essentially conned into
>    thinking they're talking to a human, when they actually were
>    not."  
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>    With so many of us cursing at our phones daily for all those
>    annoying robo calls, Alex Quilici, the CEO of the app YouMail,
>    which promises to cut down on robocalls, calls Google's
>    technology "a massive Christmas present to robocallers."
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> --Lauren--
> Lauren 
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