They’ll stop a stranger walking out with a package and keep an eye out for your abusive ex for you. They won’t remember you coming home late 6 years ago shortly after someone matching your description left an abortion clinic.
They’re also human not an unaccountable automated process. They’ll let you bring home a new fling 5 nights in the same month without registering them as a tenant, and let a non-corporate delivery driver drop off a package without being registered as a SurveillanceCorp approved deliverer.
The concept of doormen is dumb, but we don’t need to automate away every human interaction in our lives.
But seeing as you asked, doormen hit some of the aspects of US culture I've struggled to adapt to as an immigrant of ~7 years including
* Disproportionate fear of violence. It seems like doormen largely play the role of a security guard which is nice to have "just in case", without balancing against the mental harm of constant fear and anxiety. Let alone spending that money and mental capacity on actual problems like vehicle collisions and loneliness.
* An OTT service industry. I don't want someone's fulltime job to be opening the door for me and being nice to me for tips, it makes life feel like a sales call. Ditto for hiring gardeners to leafblow your tiny lawn every week all through winter, and the server at a restaurant checking in on you every 10 minutes. It's much easier to have genuine interactions and relationships with people when they are doing a worthwhile job for a fair wage.
The solution is harsh penalties for negligence or willful misuse of customer data - not banning the technology imo.
Well since the solution (in the form of those laws) doesn't exist yet, the technology shouldn't be usable until it does.
This is such an incredibly misleading statement. This is why we need legislation restricting the (ab)use of these technologies.
One difference is in the automation of recording your movements (and those of your friends) and giving easy instant access to it. I could not care less for a conscierge writing it down on a paper notebook.
Another difference is that most buildings don't have a doorman to begin with.
I would want assurances that it works equally well across skin types. I hate it when, say, HR sends me to a hotline and the phone cannot understand my accent. Often, automated system experiences are optimized for only some people.
As a PoC, I dont want to be locked out of my own building because i'm being identified as someone else.
It is a problem that our only guardrails to thing X were that human labor was too slow and costly to do it at scale. That we built no other guardrails does not imply that thing X is not a problem, nor that automating thing X at scale is no worse than doing it manually. Moreover, if the only additional guardrail you support is that every time thing X occurs, it goes to the courts, then the reasonable bad actor only needs to make the rest of their operation efficient enough to profit before they go to trial.
Unreal. When I lived in apartments I always made sure no one followed me in unless I recognized them and knew they were my neighbor or a neighbors guest I saw frequently.
When your neighbor broke up with their boyfriend, did they notify everyone in the building to no longer let him follow them in like you seem to be ok with doing? Or did you just assume it was fine and let him in since you saw him come in with them before?
I think I'm probably more socially awkward than you but maybe just in a different way. :)
imagine this but now you are being evicted because of "lease violations". You see the footage and none of it is of you, but they dont really care to bother with manual error correction.
Oh, and do you think Ring is the only private surveillance company with a police integration?
A camera and an internet connection is a tiny fraction of that.
So you're trusting your cheap-ass landlord to install an additional system layer reliably let you in at 2AM?
You know - the same landlord couldn't figure out how to check his camera backups last time someone got mugged in the vestibule?
Even in fancier neighborhoods (UWS, UES), I’d guess that less than half the buildings have doormen. And those are neighborhoods with tall buildings with dozens of large apartments.
Then you've already given up and accepted your new surveilled reality.
A doorman isn't putting detailed records in a database that can be combined with other databases.