On May 30, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) issued a draft on Guidance on Customer Preference Regulations for Telecommunications Commercial Communications, stating that it will use blockchain technology to help intercept and track spam text messages, spam emails, harassing calls, marketing calls, etc. , and Trai may be the first organization to implement this scheme.
The number of Indian telecom users reached 1.19 billion in December last year. According to RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, the number of commercial messages sent in India every month is as high as 3 billion, many of which are spam.
Moreover, since 2010, 230 million users in India have registered for the Do Not Disturb service of the Indian Telecom Regulatory Authority, but so far it has not been able to effectively combat telemarketing.
Regarding the advantages and applications of blockchain technology in intercepting online harassment, the Indian Telecommunications Regulatory Authority stated that,
First of all, the blockchain can ensure confidentiality and non-tampering;
Also, authorized persons will only have access to user details as necessary to provide the service.
In addition, blockchain technology can track every link in the entire communication chain to form a digital record, and can track the transmission source of the 10-digit digital transmission method that is difficult to track in the traditional way. Communication users can also report the communication situation, and the blockchain can help to quickly match the data.
The 2018 Draft Provisions on Customer Preferences for Telecom Commercial Communications will be open for public consultation on June 11. The regulation clearly states that there will be regular reviews of the execution of commercial communications to ensure that user data is not misused.
The regulations are expected to be finalized by July this year, according to Business Standard, Indias leading business reporting website.
Currently, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India is collecting user contact information. It is estimated that it will take one week to complete the information entry, which will only be provided to registered telemarketers under certain circumstances. Trai also said that it will work with telecom operators and other stakeholders to resolve the issue within the regulatory framework using blockchain technology.
The Internet has penetrated into various life scenarios such as travel, catering, shopping, and accommodation. Not only in India, user data privacy and security is also an urgent problem to be solved in my country.
Chen Zhaoxiong, vice minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that it is expected that my countrys total data will account for 20% of the world in 2020, and my country will become one of the countries with the largest amount of data and the most abundant data types.
However, although data security has always been a hot topic in recent years, relevant departments have never stopped their actions to rectify spam text messages and fraudulent calls. have happened.
There was such a joke circulating on the InternetJoke, The text messages received in these years have not been deleted. According to incomplete statistics: the number of winnings is 137 times, and the total amount of funds is 72.6 million yuan... And all kinds of spam text messages such as advertisements and gambling that we report will continue to appear in text messages. In the notice, the reporting behavior does not seem to have any effect, and the black production chain of data transactions continues to extend.
Data security has always been up in the air. In terms of blockchain technology, the development from two-dimensional Bitcoin to the improvement of the consensus mechanism to the application stage has been slow. Can the blockchain help to accurately track the source of communication data as expected? At present, the blockchain, which has frequent loopholes and has been repeatedly attacked by hackers, needs to be improved in order to undertake the important task of protecting data privacy and security?
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