Your Phone Number Is Going To Get a Reputation Score 136
Jah-Wren Ryel writes "Yes, there's yet another company out there with an inscrutable system making decisions about you that will affect the kinds of services you're offered. Based out of L.A.'s 'Silicon Beach,' Telesign helps companies verify that a mobile number belongs to a user (sending those oh-so-familiar 'verify that you received this code' texts) and takes care of the mobile part of two-factor authenticating or password changes. Among their over 300 clients are nine of the ten largest websites. Now Telesign wants to leverage the data — and billions of phone numbers — it deals with daily to provide a new service: a PhoneID Score, a reputation-based score for every number in the world that looks at the metadata Telesign has on those numbers to weed out the burner phones from the high-quality ones."
So... (Score:5, Funny)
... when do my reputation scores start getting reputation scores?
Mine already has (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Uhhh... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Both ways? (Score:5, Funny)
Follow the money. Is there any money for the tele-sales companies, or phone the companies, to prevent phone calls from taking place?
Yes. It costs money to make the calls, and it is especially expensive to deal with jerks like me that always press one to get a live operator, pretend to be very interested in the product, agree to place an order, and then give them a sequence of made up credit card numbers until they finally hang up. I make a game out of keeping them on the line as long as possible. My record is 43 minutes. If they filtered out my number it would save them a lot of money.
Yes, I am already on the national-do-not-call-list, but I still get a few auto-calls almost everyday.
Re:Both ways? (Score:3, Funny)
people who's calls you do want to receive?
The correct word is "whose", not "who's", you uneducated turd.
Sieg hei!
The correct expression is "Sieg Heil !", you uneducated turd.