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Collaborative filtering is better than law IMO.

My phone company shipped a phone app in the app-stores that you're supposed to use in replacement of the default phone app. It comes equipped with collaborative filtering to weed out robocalls: when one rings your phone, the phone app displays it as such as well as the number of people who have reported it.

I used to have one robocall a day, but not anymore. It looks like this simple technology has made robocallers give up.



This is not an effective system. Caller IDs are often not verified in any way. Unless the scam/robocall requires a callback, the number will be made up. Collaborative filtering can't solve this.


It did in my country (where you can't make up a phone number).




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