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Re:My Building Has Replaced Our Keys with an App. Is That Le... by agilob on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @04:28AM (#33877481)
>Would put my salary on bet that it is actually the primary goal of the change.

Landlord gets paid for the data app collects about tenants?

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Re:My Building Has Replaced Our Keys with an App. Is That Le... by Yizahi on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @05:31AM (#33877799)
Corporation dislike saying "they pay for user data". They prefer to formulate it as "they provide analytics". So nobody pays landlord, instead information is funneled for free to half a hundred of "analytics" providers, who then regurgitate that data a little, and THEN sell it if there are any buyers. Conglomerates which effectively consist of multiple different corporations-projects don't even need to do it, they just pass user data to the colleagues.

That's my guess about this situation.

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