FCC requires all phone carriers to start using caller ID authentication by 2021 to fight robocalls

In this day and age, we would expect fewer people to fall into fraudulent scams over the phone, considering our growing knowledge of security and privacy. However, America loses approximately $10 billion annually to robocall schemes, so the US government has decided to ramp up its efforts against call spoofing.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that by June 30, 2021, all phone companies are to adopt a caller ID authentication technology called STIR/SHAKEN.

STIR stands for Secure Telephone Identity Revisited, while SHAKEN is an abbreviation for Signature-based Handling ...

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