Data Privacy
Dec. 9, 2025
Tenants sue Equity Residential, SmartRent over alleged 'surveillance' inside homes
Filed in San Francisco Superior Court, the suit claims landlords outfitted rental units with smart-home devices that log when tenants come and go, track temperature settings, and feed data into analytics tools -- all without meaningful consent.
One of the nation's largest landlords and a technology company have been accused in a lawsuit of transforming renters' homes into "environments of surveillance," by tracking them with in-home technologies.
The technologies, such as internet-connected locks, thermostats and leak detectors, collect data on tenants' daily lives without meaningful consent, the complaint filed by the ACLU of Northern California claims.
Filed in San Francisco Superior Cou...
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