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Apple, Google, Microsoft, and AT&T team up for ‘robocall’ crackdown

(Reuters) — More than 30 major technology companies are joining the U.S. government to crack down on automated, prerecorded telephone calls that regulators have labeled a “scourge.”
AT&T, Google parent Alphabet, Apple, Verizon and Comcast are among the members of the “Robocall Strike Force,” which will work with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. The group was holding its first meeting with the FCC on Friday.
The strike force will report to the commissi
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