Dirty Frank
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Guy that i knew always broke that out on the jehovah's witnesses when they came a knocking.
Phone Scammers
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Technology is not developed to make our lives easier it is developed to make companies more profitable - period.
I remember in high school my computer teacher telling us that every home will have a PC in it and our work lives will be automated and we will have all this free time & people that took computers will be have the world in the palm of their hands and life will be rainbows and puppy dogs.
Fast forward 15years and we have a PC at home, work and a Blackberry for good measure. I have never been busier - people sending emails on top of emails (would love to shoot the guy that invented the 'reply all' button) companies developing self service web pages and downsizing their support staff forcing customers to do this work themselves, calling a service provider (utilities, bank, insurance, and gov't agencies) and being run through a gauntlet 'please listen to the following prompts carefully' just to get a question about your invoice or to make a change on your account.
Web sites required you to input all your personal information to get access to something as menial as an insurance quote or a cell phone quote and then they sell off this information to 3rd party companies. Things that we think are free like FB or Instagram are mining our information and creating logarithms to be used against us with their advertisers - how many times have you had a conversation about going on vacation and the next day 'bam' all your pop up ads are for vacation companies?
Personally I removed myself off all social media sites and do feel that AI is just going to make things that much worse with the advent of a personal assistant. This personal assistant does not work for you it works for big tech.
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"Reply all" sometimes has karma.
A property manager I detested decided to run as an MPP and did a bulk email to everyone he knew inviting them to a pricey support dinner.
A lot of people hit "Reply all" telling him they'd rather choke on a fish hook. His full contact list got all the message.
Even your cell phone is listening, even when it's not engaged. They'd like you to think it's a coincidence.
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This combined with designing a system without carriers putting your phone calls through a data miner makes it impossible without inadvertently blocking any legitimate calls. User habits are different regionally so without listening to your calls, there's no way to know on a brand new call campaign with fresh numbers till a large enough sample size is gathered. I'm not talking spoofing btw. That's a whole different can of worms.
It's also a common carrier system in Canada for telecoms. The end user decides who to answer and who not to answer. Allowing carriers to decide based on content is about as big of a privacy breach as it gets. Reporting via 3rd party databases and submissions is as much as you can do. Giving more permission for telecoms to screen calls based on content is not going to end up the way you think it will.
And if you offered the big guys the permission to block VOIP, the spam caller's first choice in cost effectiveness, they'd jump all over that. More international termination fees for traditional long distance!
Also, calling is a global standard with almost a century of infrastucture. Changing the fundamental underpinnings of POTS to include some sort of 'authentication' in an inexpensive vendor agnostic new standard goes right next to the argument for the US making the switch to metric in todays society.
Call termination fees for domestic calls is not particuarly profitable anymore. Message termination fees, especially international is a revenue source but not for calls. You can thank Syniverse's global business model. You have a global 3rd party technology solution monopoly that is incentivized by encouraging more SMS/MMS traffic. They double dip on sending and receiving. Spam? Yes please. Want to block the incoming SMS? We'll block your outgoing if you do!
Our clueless lake association sends out mass emails addressed to all in the To or CC field 4 or 5 times a year. They've been told repeatedly to use BCC for the member distribution list to mask member email addresses, but they just can't seem to remember this.
On older versions of Android I made the default ringtone silent, then manually switched everyone on my contact list to a real ringtone. Not ideal, but it worked. On recent versions of Android you can now get the same effect with an always-on 'do not disturb' mode which only allows notifications from people on your contact list. You still get the spam calls and texts, but it's 95% less annoying because the phone doesn't make any sound. I still have to check voicemail occasionally, but I can delete the message the instant that I hear Chinese. Those are the only spam calls that I get these days.
Yup. All I get on non contact is a message alert.
Once it was from the police, asking for more info on a collision I had witnessed.
