A Greater Victoria startup has created a tool designed to help landlords assess tenants using artificial intelligence, CTV News reports. CLAIRE scans more than 100,000 public websites in order to compile a report on a potential tenant's level of risk. The tool looks for criminal convictions, eviction notices and social media behavior but can only look for a person if the potential tenant has given consent. "If you're collecting more information than is necessary, which would almost certainly include information that is in a social media platform, it is very hard for me to see how information that is disclosed on Facebook or Instagram or Twitter would be related to a tenant suitability decision," British Columbia Privacy Commissioner Bradley Weldon, CIPP/C, CIPT, said.
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