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>and accept their TOS... Money quote. People aren't thinking ahead here about what this opens you up to with respect to privacy loss. Think about the permissi
by bilbo0s 8y ago
>and accept their TOS...
Money quote.
People aren't thinking ahead here about what this opens you up to with respect to privacy loss. Think about the permissions on your phone such an app could ask for in the future. Now consider that if you don't grant them, you could potentially not get into your apartment.
Smart locks are a cancer. We should cut them out early.
- dwyerm 8y agoYeah, I and bet that TOS includes a mandatory binding arbitration and class-action waiver. When the lock fails who is going to be held responsible?
- thatoneuser 8y agoDef not the landlord or lock company.
- JadeNB 8y ago> People aren't thinking ahead here about what this opens you up to with respect to privacy loss. Think about the permissions on your phone such an app could ask for in the future. Now consider that if you don't grant them, you could potentially not get into your apartment. Forget the future: the TOS currently permit the collection of personal information for marketing, to which the company blandly responded, "we don't do that".
- viraptor 8y ago> Smart locks are a cancer. We should cut them out early. Baby with bathwater. Smart locks are useful. Bad implementations are bad. You can have one with both a normal key lock and a card which uses a standard RFID tag rather than a specific app. They're both convenient and failsafe.