https://boingboing.net/2019/05/10/latch-vs-keys.html Tenants in New York City have reached a settlement with their landlord requiring the landlord to install actual locks with actual keys on demand, rather than insisting that all tenants use locks from Latch, the leading Internet of Things "smart lock" vendor, whose products conduct fine-grained surveillance on their users, which the company reserves the right to share with third parties. The suit was brought by Mary Beth McKenzie, Tony Mysak, and a group of their fellow tenants against their Hell's Kitchen landlord after the landlord summarily swapped out their apartment building's locks and replaced them with Latch products. Mysak, a 93-year-old longtime resident of the building, was unable to operate the lock on his home and found himself locked in. The settlement gives the tenants a cause of action to sue their landlord in the event that the landlord deprives them of a physical key option in the future. Lisa Gallaudet, an attorney representing the landlords, insists that this is not a "victory" for the tenants, and says her client only settled because litigation would have been an expensive nuisance.