A Robinson list protects phone subscribers against commercial spam calls. Its least basic functionality is to collect the denial of the subscribers to be contacted by market operators. Nowadays, Robinson lists run as centralised services, which implies that citizens should trust third parties for the management of their choices. In this paper, we show a design that allows us to realise a Robinson list as a decentralised service. Our work leverages the experience developed by Fondazione Ugo Bordoni as the manager of the Italian Robinson list. We present a general solution and a proof-of-concept (PoC) adopting the Algorand technology. We evaluate the performances of our PoC in terms of its scalability and of the latency perceived by the involved actors. We also discuss aspects related to identity management and privacy.
@article{arxiv.2110.02594,
title = {Empowering Citizens by a Blockchain-Based Robinson List},
author = {Albenzio Cirillo and Vito Dalena and Antonio Mauro and Francesco Mogavero and Diego Pennino and Maurizio Pizzonia and Andrea Vitaletti and Marco Zecchini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.02594},
year = {2021}
}
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This article has been accepted for publication in International Journal of Computers and Applications, published by Taylor & Francis