HN seems to be very anti-surveillance tech, I guess until it's the landlords doing the surveilling? Housing should not be a commodity at all. In my lifetime I

HN seems to be very anti-surveillance tech, I guess until it's the landlords doing the surveilling? Housing should not be a commodity at all. In my lifetime I've seen the landlord move from someone who might live on site to someone who has money to pay a property manager to manager their portfolio of properties. Your super these days is as likely to be an underpaid worker as anyone living on site. All this tech is doing is further solidifying the powers of the landlord over the tenant, increasing the surveillance of tenants, and normalizing surveillance culture. I'm surprised to see it supported on HN of all places, which is usually very privacy oriented. Edit: To not just be negative, let me present some positive alternatives for discussion: * Housing cooperatives -- Tenants can collectively own the building they live in, and decide as a community what technology works for them * Tenants unions -- Tenants can collectively discuss what the property should be using, what the rules should be, and negotiate as a unit with their landlord.