When a Phone App Opens Your Apartment Door, but You Just Want a Key [telecom]

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Residents of a Manhattan building where tenants must use an app to open the lobby door have filed a lawsuit challenging the practice.

By Corina Knoll

A lawsuit filed in October in Housing Court in Manhattan by [an elderly] couple and three other tenants of the West 45th Street building demands that the landlord give them access to all the entryways without having to use a keyless entry system.

But it also has opened a wider debate over privacy, ageism and renter's rights that has inspired new legislation in Albany.