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

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

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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."  
>
>    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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