Americans have a do not call list. People are prosecuted for abusing it. Yet we still get Spam calls. This has nothing to do with lack of regulation, but by ease of abuse and difficulty in preventing these calls without impacting legitimate uses. Like, say, creating Twilio which uses a bunch of random numbers?
And yet, people blindly follow their GPS on their phones all day, all managed and run by the US government.
>GPS,[1] is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Air Force
.. so it's national defence...
Believe it or not GPS is part of national defense. They just also allow civilians to use it too.