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Re:Privacy matters even if “you have nothing to hide” by vntok on Monday December 14, 2020 @09:53AM (#25418188)
> "Would you give me your home address and keys so I can drop off a newspaper on your coffee table each morning?"

If we're entering a valid contract under the justice system of our country of residency, why not? Similar services already abound, in particular around people who contract to visit and attend to older citizens.

Re:Privacy matters even if “you have nothing to hide” by Tokelin on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @05:01AM (#25428708)
This is a valid argument, which leads me to the thought that the laws need to be updated. I personally wouldn't be okay with my own premise. I have a person coming over to clean, but I am always home and I can check if I am worried about something.
Re:Privacy matters even if “you have nothing to hide” by vntok on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @08:47AM (#25430219)
If that's not too intrusive a question, I would be curious to know about your fears regarding such situation? Many people would consider this a benign thing - after all residential cleaning services is a multi-dozen billion market worldwide, growing at 5+% YoY, and a non-trivial part of that necessarily involves letting cleaners clean without owners' supervision.

Then again I'm asking as a European citizen living in a country with a comprehensive legal system, a functioning police force, cheap insurance policies, so on so forth. Certainly that ecosystem plays a role in our inner fears.