Re:New Yorkers Want to Stop Landlords from Using Facial Reco...
by cwkoss on Thursday May 04, 2023 @03:08PM
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Police/security could be called on a resident every time they walk into the hallway of their building, and landlords would tell them "we've put in a support ticket with our facial recognition vendor, we'll let you know their response in 4-6 weeks".
Or residents could be locked out of the building with no way to get in for weeks at a time.
Just facial recognition wouldn't have a point - landlords are going to use this data for something, and that something is likely to interfere with residents quiet enjoyment of their residence.
From the article, the concern here is that the landlords are "trying to find ways to expedite ways of flushing people out of the building". Presumably the this tech could make it easy to tenants violating their lease. For example, detecting non-residents using keys to enter the building as a sign of illegal subletting.
But if the face rec system incorrectly identifies some lease violation, the landlord still needs to go through additional human verification and present proof to a judge to start the eviction process. It seems like inaccurate facial recognition would be good for the tenants. If the results are inaccurate enough it eventually defeats the whole purpose of the system.
(this is very different from situations like Madison Square Garden's use of face rec, where a someone might be denied entry unilaterally because of misidentification and have no recourse)