Pricey NYC Housing Now Has an Added Cost: Your Personal Data

I follow the narrow hallway. It’s covered with exhaustingly-hip custom wallpaper of faces that look like they’ve been cut out of a fashion magazine, placed in a grid formation, and drawn on. I emerge into the sort of bright, minimalist white-walled apartment that only seems to exist on Instagram. Individual lights flick on as I walk around the furniture of the small living room. I pause, thinking I might have disturbed someone. I haven’t — the apartments’ motion sensors spotted me one by one as I stepped beneath each light.