In the US anyway, landlords already run reference and credit checks. So now, in addition to the intrusive questions with gobs of personal data that the landlor

In the US anyway, landlords already run reference and credit checks. So now, in addition to the intrusive questions with gobs of personal data that the landlords give us, we will have to give more data to this service and have future roommates run credit checks on each other? No thanks. This creep of "services" into what should be a part of normal social interactions and analysis is slightly worrying; to say nothing of the commercialization of personal relations ("You read the reviews before buying a toaster on Amazon, why wouldn't you want to learn more about the person you're about to share a bathroom with?"). And I say this despite having had a 'bad roommate' situation last year which this service would have probably prevented (in fact, in that case, the landlord's checks did flag the guy, but we let him live with us anyway).