Atlantic Plaza Towers facial-recognition rollout opposed by tenants
Date: 2019-04
Affected: Tenants
Attack vector: data-exfiltration
Category: real-world
Severity: Medium

Tenants of the rent-stabilized Atlantic Plaza Towers in Brooklyn successfully fought a landlord plan to replace key-fob entry with a StoneLock facial-recognition system, raising precedent-setting concerns about coerced biometric collection in residential housing.


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