After the elderly renter has been locked in his apartment by the stupid "smart lock" of his landlord, renters have the right to use their keys to enter their home

Tenants in New York City have reached an agreement with their landlord, requiring them to install real locks with keys on demand, rather than insisting that all tenants use Latch locks, the main supplier of "smart lock" of the Internet of Things, whose products a fine monitoring of their users, that the company reserves the right to share with third parties.

The suit was brought by Mary Beth McKenzie, Tony Mysak and a group of their housemates against their owner, Hell & # 39; s Kitchen, after the owner briefly exchanged locks for their building and replaced them with Latch products. Mysak, 93 years old and long-time resident in the building, was not able to operate the lock of his home and found himself locked inside.

The bylaw gives tenants a cause of action to sue their landlord in the event that it would deprive them of a physical key option in the future. Lisa Gallaudet, a lawyer representing the owners, insists that it is not a "victory" for tenants, and asserts that her client was only settled because a dispute would have been a costly nuisance.

Latch products are installed in more than 1,000 buildings in New York.

Unauthorized bread, the first story of my new book Radicalized, speaks of renters whose owners use non-consensual Internet devices of the Internet of Things to derive extra income, with bread ovens that only make "grilling bread", dishwashers that wash only "permitted dishes" etc. .

Mary Beth McKenzie, her husband, Tony Mysak, and a group of tenants sued their owners after the owners installed the smart locks last year, arguing that there were privacy issues with the smart lock Latch and the application required to access their own building.

Mysak, 93, was not able to use a phone and found himself stuck at home because of smart locks, McKenzie said. Complainants also had problems with Latch's privacy policy, which stipulated that the application could collect people's location data and use it for marketing purposes. Latch stated that it did not do so and was in the process of revising its privacy policy.

Tenants earn as a result of a transaction order [Alfred Ng/Cnet]

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