Why it’s so hard to stop all those spam calls
The Federal Communications Commission estimates that Americans get 4 billion unwanted automated calls every month. And they work. We get scammed out of $9.5 billion every year. But if we can filter out most of the spam in our email, why haven't we solved robocalling? Because it’s a deceptively complicated problem to solve. (11/05/18)
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The Federal Communications Commission estimates that Americans get 4 billion unwanted automated calls every month. And they work. We get scammed out of $9.5 billion every year. But if we can filter out most of the spam in our email, why haven’t we solved robocalling? Because it’s a deceptively complicated problem to solve. (11/05/18)
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