Telecommunications company to pay 1 million dollars

Lingo Telecom is responsible for transmitting a deepfake of president Joe Biden urging people in New Hampshire residents urging them not to go to the poles to vote this year.

The person, named in the article, Steve Kramer, allegedly was behind the calls and was asked to pay a higher fee to the FCC in the amount of 6 million dollars.

Under the deal now proposed, Lingo, the company, will have to know their customers and verify the information that their customers and their upstream providers providing them services.

Jessica Rosenworcel, the chair of the FCC said in quotes that we should be aware of it is an AI person or a real caller on the line.

I hardly answer any of my lines anymore. This is because of all of the spam we get whether political or otherwise.

While that is a bad practice for someone in business, the calls I have answered were either connecting me to some call center outside the U.S., or it had nothing on the line.

I answered one call and it was trying to tell me that I needed to do something about my vehicle insurance, something I don’t even have.

I know people fall for these all the time, and we’ve even talked about the Shaken and Stir protocol in our early podcasts of TSB.

This protocol was to absolutely tell us who is calling, but also prevent unknown calls where the area code is faked not to go through if I understood this protocol correctly. Unfortunately, this is not the case, and it fails really bad.

To read the entire piece over at the verge, read the article titled Telecom will pay $1 million over deepfake Joe Biden robocall and let us know what you think.

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