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posted by mrpg on Thursday May 09 2019, @02:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the no-battery dept.

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Tenants at a property in New York City just struck a deal in what is both a wildly reasonable ask but also a crucial precedent at a time of increasing surveillance—their landlord has to give them physical keys to their building.

Five tenants in Hell’s Kitchen sued their landlord in March after the owners installed a Latch smart lock on the building last year. It is unlocked with a smartphone, and reportedly granted tenants access to the lobby, elevator, and mail room. But the group that sued their landlords saw this keyless entry as harassment, an invasion of privacy, and simply inconvenient.

“We are relieved that something as simple as entering our home is not controlled by an internet surveillance system and that because we will now have a mechanical key they will not be tracking our friends and our family,” 67-year-old tenant Charlotte Pfahl, who has lived in the building for 45 years, told the New York Post.

Source: After Smart Lock Allegedly Traps Senior in Apartment, Tenants Sue for Physical Keys and Win


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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday May 09 2019, @02:33PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 09 2019, @02:33PM (#841334) Journal

    No it can't be picked, as there's no keyhole of any kind. It can be bypassed, but that is easier to secure relative to a keyhole.

    The best remedy for that in the true spirit of IoT is to provide a USB port.

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