Call screening

{{Short description|Process of evaluating telephone calls}}

{{this|evaluating whether to answer a call or devices that do this|people who cull incoming calls|call screener}}

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Call screening is the process of evaluating the characteristics of a telephone call before deciding how or whether to answer it.{{Cite journal|last=Kempf|first=Angela M.|last2=Remington|first2=Patrick L.|title=New Challenges for Telephone Survey Research in the Twenty-First Century|journal=Annual Review of Public Health|volume=28|issue=1|pages=113–26|doi=10.1146/annurev.publhealth.28.021406.144059|doi-access=free|pmid=17094769|year=2007}}

Some methods may include:

In addition, in the US and Canada, Call Screen is a calling feature offered by the telephone companies that allows a customer to establish a list of numbers; anyone calling the customer from those numbers will receive an automatic message indicating that the call is not being accepted. Another name, not usually used for marketing purposes, is "Selective Call Rejection". There are also devices such as the TeleZapper for screening telephone calls.

Android 11 have support for call screening with STIR/SHAKEN.{{cite web |title=Turning it up to 11: Android 11 for developers |url=https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/09/android11-final-release.html |website=Android Developers Blog |language=en}}

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