https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dygvky/how-caller-id-predicted-our-current-privacy-and-robocall-nightmare

A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail.

Congress may be mired in impeachment and Iran right now, but things are still getting done in Washington, and one of those things is the passage of legislation late last year that aims to stop robocalls.