[GRLUG] $50K Prize if You Find Way to Block Robocalls

[Ben Rousch]

I have been toying with the idea of crowd-sourcing the reporting. When
you get a robocall, you use an app to report the call. When enough
reports have come in, the number is added to a list, like a SORBS for
phone numbers.

I already have a "Blocked Callers" group in my contacts to which I add
any numbers I don't want to ring through. I also have a rule in Google
Voice that turns on call screening for calls from those numbers. So
the final step is to import the spam call list into that contact on a
regular interval.

But there are problems with this system, just like any other spam
reporting system: fake/blocked caller ID and 4chan deciding to get the
white house's phone number on the list are two examples.


On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The only way I could see to do this would be a rather large invasion of privacy
>
> You're right.  It _is_ a huge invasion of privacy.  But it's one that
> happened long ago.  The phone company (specifically - the one
> servicing the robocaller) has all the data necessary to do this
> already.  They're just not using it for this particular purpose.
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