• Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
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    16 days ago

    To the same audience: quit selling my fucking phone number!

    I ditched a phone number I had for 10+ years because it was leaked everywhere. Only a few short months after updating my number with the DMV and a handful of other government agencies I started receiving scam calls/messages again.

    At some point we need to adopt some fucking privacy laws. This is absolutely bonkers—is no one else fed up??

    • john89@lemmy.ca
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      14 days ago

      At some point we need to adopt some fucking privacy laws. This is absolutely bonkers—is no one else fed up??

      Look at you, trying to use the government to solve every day problems that face pretty much all of us.

      Don’t you know we only focus on gridlock issues to distract us from real issues now?

    • Ulrich@feddit.org
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      16 days ago

      I set my phone to decline calls from unknown callers years ago.

      These calls are already illegal. I used to report them to the FTC but I never heard anything back so I have no idea what happens, but I presume nothing. If I had the time to take them, and if they spoke English, I would record them with the Cube ACR app (which no longer works) and convince them to incriminate themselves. Ask their name, company, location, time/date, whether they ran my number through the DNC registry.

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      16 days ago

      lists sourced from drivers licenses and motor vehicle registration records are literally sold by some states.

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      15 days ago

      Don’t worry, here in Europe we are full of privacy laws but I still receive tents of spam calls per day. Usually from non UE countries faking the number with my country numbers.

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        15 days ago

        Anything with a London 020 number is guaranteed to be a man with an Indian accent pretending to be from British Telecom.