I stumbled on this news and started wondering if it’s legal. It seems to me it shouldn’t, since it’s pretty much doxing. But I don’t know at all.
How is this doxing? It’s just names. You know there used to be a big paper thing that had your phone number address and name given to everyone.
I’ve got my elementary school phonebooks from the 70s. Imagine the conniption fit parents would have today!
Why do you think doxing is a crime? It’s not. This isn’t even doxing anyways.
You could try to make a case for slander, but from the article it sounds like any posts have to be backed up with legal documents.
Seems pretty reasonable to me.
I wonder if the information can be publicly posted according to lease contract. I see the value of avoiding bad landlords/tenants, but the privacy concern is horrific.
Imagine if pharmacies started rating bad customers, hospital publishing lists of bad patients, teachers posting lists of bad students. It would be a complete social disaster and stop a lot of people from receiving access to basic necessities because providers did not want to take a risk on some unrated or that received a bad first/second rating (which is completely subjective).
Doctors, nurses, and pharmacists definitely document any tantrums or difficulties they have in your medical records. They don’t deny you care, but they are going to treat some patients differently based on their previous interactions.
That information is not public though. No one is stopping a landlord from asking for references and reaching out to those past landlords; which is a totally fair thing to do.
There is tons of information that is public that people don’t think of.
The article clearly states that the reports must be supported by documents from the TLB. Those records are public.
Are the reports completely objective? Even with supporting documents, people tend to not look at the source and just read the report. At least that’s the case with Wikipedia.
They are hearing and judgement reports from the board so there is that.
Exactly, and any misunderstanding can run you out of society? I don’t understand how can this be legal at all. I understand they don’t want to loose money renting to a bad tenant but what is there to stop a landlord for putting up someone because they refused their sexual advance etc…
I knew a landlord who started being a dick and making it unlivable to a friend of mine because she refused to sleep with him. Why would this not be abused too.
This seems similar to credit reporting done by Experian or TransUnion, which is legal.
The number of landlords leaving in the GTA, we estimate, is 50 to 75 a month and climbing," he said
This is a dumb statement. Either
- they sell the income house
- they let family stay there
- they sell another house and move into that one as a residence and someone buys their old house
Either way the fact they’ve left the rental market doesn’t actually affect the housing availability. SOMEONE STILL LIVES THERE who would otherwise be needing to live someplace else!
