I know articles and headlines are written separately, but that “The Landlord Wants Facial Recognition Technology In Its Rent-Stabilized Buildings. Why?” article spends a lot of time kind of vaguely invoking fears of surveillance as what, a way to prevent the poor from assembling? to differentially harass minorities And never really gets to answering that “Why?” – a good question!

Actually I kind of suspect a young writer turned in a 2019-flavored hash and the headline editor tried to distill the “real story”, because the answer is almost certainly “to prevent the rent-stabilized tenants of record from subletting their units at market rates”