Article 1GQ1N UK startup offers landlords continuous, deep surveillance of tenants' social media

UK startup offers landlords continuous, deep surveillance of tenants' social media

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Cory Doctorow
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Here's Source Assured's pitch: landlords, if you write a requirement for tenants (and prospective tenants) to let us access their social media accounts into your lease/application process, we'll scrape all that data, use an unaccountable system to analyze it, and produce libelous, life-destroying dossiers on them that you can use to discriminate against people who seek shelter, the most fundamental human need after sustenance. (more")

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