Apple, Google, and telecos try to address robocalls


Wired:

"Americans are fed up," says Federal Communications Commission boss Tom Wheeler. "Robocalls are a scourge. It's the number one complaint that we hear from consumers on a daily basis."

To address those complaints, Apple, Alphabet (you know--the folks who own Google), AT&T, Comcast and other tech companies are joining an FCC task force charged with ending the scourge of automated pre-recorded telemarketing calls.

The problem it seems is getting worse with VOIP, which allows callers to basically generate calls from any number anywhere. Still, it seems like if you can take a systems view, it would seem reasonable you could apply filtering techniques used for SPAM email and malicious websites. By viewing what's going on in the system, plus collecting user feedback, something should be possible to at least reduce the number of illegal calls.