Someone on an Airbnb put me up in their place for next to nothing when I was fleeing a hurricane. Hotels were booked and upcharging people huge amounts. There are pros and cons to the system, anyone advocating banning it, however, is only seeing their own side.
I'm not at all for banning it. But stories like these, from a consumer standpoint, make me want to increasingly avoid Airbnb. Hosts need to be at minimum banned from the platform for having cameras in housing they're offering to guests. And "disclosing" them is not enough.
I'm anti surveillance, but if it's disclosed in the ad that there are cameras and where they were then it seems like something a person can decide whether or not that bothers them. No cameras seems a little excessive.
The only time it’s OK is if all parties are consenting to be part of some voyeuristic fetish movie. There is never an excuse for such a blatant privacy violation. “No cameras seems a little bit excessive” sounds dystopian.
