Re:Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affec...
by dathinab on Thursday April 08, 2021 @10:41AM
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Yes it won't happen due to legal reasons, but I would love it to happen anyway.
Technically it's not a problem, it's kinda easy to filter phone numbers by country and (less reliable) by carrier. Then you either can use country local SMS gateways or potentially give it to the carrier in question and let them do it.
Again the problem is the legal basis.
Preferably a change of law should:
- make it legal for the goverment to do the contacting, including by passing it to the carrier associated with the number
- require carriers to send the massage (to avoid auto matic SMS spam detection problems). Through you give them some (small!) amount of money for their (lets be honest) small amount of additional work.
Technically it's not a problem, it's kinda easy to filter phone numbers by country and (less reliable) by carrier. Then you either can use country local SMS gateways or potentially give it to the carrier in question and let them do it.
Again the problem is the legal basis.
Preferably a change of law should:
- make it legal for the goverment to do the contacting, including by passing it to the carrier associated with the number
- require carriers to send the massage (to avoid auto matic SMS spam detection problems). Through you give them some (small!) amount of money for their (lets be honest) small amount of additional work.