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The time I caught my landlord selling my wifi data to an ad network
After three months of weirdly targeted ads for my building's parking garage, I found a clause in my lease that let the landlord collect and sell my browsing data through the shared wifi - I was furious they didn't even ask. Now I'm torn between demanding they opt me out or just getting my own ISP, so which side do you fall on for this kind of sneaky data grab?
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ross.lily2d ago
Read a privacy lawyer say that clause is probably unenforceable in most states anyway.
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corap212d ago
Started skimming through my lease after reading this and wow... I can't believe they actually wrote that into a legal document without making it super obvious. The parking garage ads part is what gets me though, like imagine every time you search for something normal your landlord gets a cut of that data sale. I'd be checking my lease for a buyout clause or just paying for my own internet honestly, because that level of sneakiness would make me not trust anything else in the building.
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the_paul2d ago
The timing thing is what gets me about this. Most leases auto-renew in the dead of winter, like January or February, when it's freezing outside and nobody wants to move. So even if you find this garbage in your contract, you're basically trapped for another year unless you want to break the lease and pay some ridiculous penalty. I'd bet money that's exactly why they bury this stuff in there during the coldest months on purpose.
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