The Federal Communications Commission is moving ahead with a program requiring telephone service providers to verify the origins of phone calls—potentially eliminating spoof and robocalls—and is creating a new public database to track compliance among carriers.
This summer, telephone service providers in the U.S. will be required to comply with the Secure Telephone Identity Revisited, or STIR, and Signature-based Handling of Asserted Information Using toKENs, or SHAKEN, which requires tracking and accurately displaying the true caller ID of incoming calls. Compliance with these standards will be tracked in a new Robocall Mitigation Database and posted publicly for all to see, according to a notice posted in the Federal Register.
