I don't want the new thing because it is the new thing. I want new things that are better.
People accept abusive technology because they consider that's just the way it is with this new thing. It's a failure to understand what should be considered unacceptable.
Thankfully my lease was old enough that I was able to argue against it. I don’t want a 3rd party company tracking my habits, and I don’t want some manager boiling my pets alive while I’m gone because they decided they think our AC is set too low.
It's even worse if some staff wrote paranoid in your file, 'cause they'll argue it's good for "exposure".
Those folks pay out the effing nose, they ought to be allowed to control the temp in their apartment.
So what happens if you arrive home with a dead phone?
And possibly worse, they have a log of when you come and go?
But I would absolutely not install an app for that.
But the app on your phone does not have that limitation.
Most apartment buildings in the US already use face-tracking cameras to get this log