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Landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can verify their income. We were sent screenshot of the tool, Argyle, downloading much more data than necessary to approve the renter. "Opt-out means no housing"
🔗 https://www.404media.co/landlords-demand-tenants-workplace-logins-to-scrape-their-paystubs/
Handing login credentials to a third party would get most people fired.
@404mediaco @nat This is a grotesque privacy violation. A simple pay stub should suffice for this purpose.
@404mediaco Landlords could verify a potential tenant’s income by asking for paystubs. Their insistence on doing it this way makes me suspect it’s a matter of testing how much bullshit a tenant will put up with.
Correct me if I'm wrong, US #lawfedi, but I'm pretty sure @404mediaco is right that every case of of the landlords accessing the (prospective) tenants' workplace logins is a #CFAA violation, because employees are not legally entitled to authorize the landlord to log into the employers' systems, so the landlords are exceeding their authorized access.
@404mediaco Fuck that shit. Also, that violates my employer's terms and I'd be tempted to report them to the cybersecurity group as an attempt to gain access to the corporate network.
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