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How Airbnb Kills Our Ideas of Privacy

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To make its home-away-from-home vibe work, the online housing broker insists on a level of transparency from hosts and guests that creates a level of intimacy bordering on the unseemly.

Laurence Scott
Laurence Scott
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Laurence Scott

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