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The doorman isn’t dumping a log of your comings and goings as well as who entered or exited with you into an unsecured s3 bucket in the cloud.

by epc 3y ago

ejb999 3y ago
then thats the problem to fix - your landlord could also be dumping copies of your drivers license, rental application, lease and other financial data onto an unprotected s3 bucket as well - are we going to ban them from collecting that information? The solution is harsh penalties for negligence or willful misuse of customer data - not banning the technology imo.
- epc 3y ago
  Yeah. That ship has sailed. Too many companies have been too blithe about customer data in order to blitzscale that growth curve and make their investors jump for joy. The next decade is going to be a series of overreaching regulatory baseball bats to the tech industry for abusing the trust and naiveté of the generic consumer.
  - fnimick 3y ago
    As it should be. Companies that abuse the public trust _should_ be regulated harshly.
- tbrake 3y ago
  > The solution is harsh penalties for negligence or willful misuse of customer data - not banning the technology imo. Well since the solution (in the form of those laws) doesn't exist yet, the technology shouldn't be usable until it does.
- nerdponx 3y ago
  It's not the landlord personally doing it though, it's third-party companies with low public visibility and no disincentive to try to monetize their data. it's harder to regulate entrenched abuses than to regulate new ones, so I see this as a perfectly valid and beneficial short term measure until we as a society can get our heads more properly around personal privacy rights in general.
- gnopgnip 3y ago
  Current law/policies kind of does this and isn't just reactive. Like to access a tenants background check the credit bureaus require an on site survey of the landlords office with requirements for a paper shredder, a locking file cabinet or similar way to secure records, and that the space is separate from a living area.
cde-v 3y ago
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Gigachad 3y ago
Basically every single building is doing this with key fobs.
- tzmudzin 3y ago
  Let’s not equal widespread abuse to no abuse at all.
annexrichmond 3y ago
as I started reading your comment I thought it was going to be about him being in the bathroom and not being able to do his job

The doorman isn’t dumping a log of your comings and goings as well as who entered or exited with you into an unsecured s3 bucket in the cloud.

by epc 3y ago

The doorman isn’t dumping a log of your comings and goings as well as who entered or exited with you into an unsecured s3 bucket in the cloud.

ejb999 3y ago

then thats the problem to fix - your landlord could also be dumping copies of your drivers license, rental application, lease and other financial data onto an unprotected s3 bucket as well - are we going to ban them from collecting that information? The solution is harsh penalties for negligence or willful misuse of customer data - not banning the technology imo.

epc 3y ago
Yeah. That ship has sailed. Too many companies have been too blithe about customer data in order to blitzscale that growth curve and make their investors jump for joy. The next decade is going to be a series of overreaching regulatory baseball bats to the tech industry for abusing the trust and naiveté of the generic consumer.
- fnimick 3y ago
  As it should be. Companies that abuse the public trust _should_ be regulated harshly.
tbrake 3y ago
> The solution is harsh penalties for negligence or willful misuse of customer data - not banning the technology imo. Well since the solution (in the form of those laws) doesn't exist yet, the technology shouldn't be usable until it does.
nerdponx 3y ago
It's not the landlord personally doing it though, it's third-party companies with low public visibility and no disincentive to try to monetize their data. it's harder to regulate entrenched abuses than to regulate new ones, so I see this as a perfectly valid and beneficial short term measure until we as a society can get our heads more properly around personal privacy rights in general.
gnopgnip 3y ago
Current law/policies kind of does this and isn't just reactive. Like to access a tenants background check the credit bureaus require an on site survey of the landlords office with requirements for a paper shredder, a locking file cabinet or similar way to secure records, and that the space is separate from a living area.

cde-v 3y ago

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Gigachad 3y ago

Basically every single building is doing this with key fobs.

tzmudzin 3y ago
Let’s not equal widespread abuse to no abuse at all.

annexrichmond 3y ago

as I started reading your comment I thought it was going to be about him being in the bathroom and not being able to do his job