Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 23 February 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
General Scheme of the Communications Regulation (Enforcement) Bill: Discussion
Mr. Joseph Stephens:
I will not go into the details but there has been one technical solution to address one part of the scam texts. That would be the most malicious type where you have your phone and it comes in and appears to come from a legitimate source like, say, a bank, and so on. We have technical solutions in place now. They are not 100% perfect. No solution ever will be but there are now solutions that try to stop that. We have signed up with a number of different entities in the State, have seen extremely promising results and have very good evidence that it is working well.
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