https://onezero.medium.com/americas...g-app-has-a-data-privacy-problem-f19169a8ab2e
In addition to collecting, storing, and sharing information like a user’s age and “profile,” Latch’s privacy policy states the company may receive, store, and process information about users’ location, including general information (e.g. IP address or zip code) and more specific GPS-based information. Latch also captures and stores photos and videos of those who interact with the hardware. The privacy policy gives an example of how the physical systems installed in buildings could record a video clip when a tenant’s guest enters with a code or their smartphone.
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By forcing you to sign a privacy agreement to open your front door, Latch helps us see how the internet of things has brought bad data policies off-line, normalizing invasive technology. It’s a new perspective on what’s really at stake when we sign that dotted line.