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.

> 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.

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.

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.

Let’s not equal widespread abuse to no abuse at all.