Yeah this is a massive security risk. Even if the landlord doesn't intend anything malicious, I seriously doubt they're putting much effort into protecting that information. Juicy target for a ransomware gang.

Laws are to protect the elite, not the common people.

They'll be fine. They only use that law against people they want to persecute. They never go after their own class

My other half worked for a large retail chain in the UK. One of her colleagues (let's call him Bevin Koyle for no reason whatsoever) was a particularly tiresome dude - not a bad guy by any means, but just super fucking irritating. Very self-centred, happy to dodge responsibility and let a colleague take a fall, and a bit of a gobby twat.

Back when she worked the quieter hours and mobile data plans were quite anaemic, she would put her mobile phone hotspot on for her colleagues to listen to music or whatever.

This one shift, Bevin had run out of data, and already forseeing this situation happening, she had already set the password accordingly. "I can see your WiFi", says Bevin, "but what's the password?"

"BevinKoyleIsACunt", she loudly announces.

"No seriously," says Bevin, "what's the password?"

"BevinKoyleIsACunt" she once again says loudly.

Bevin is getting a bit fucked off now, and is like "stop being nasty, give me the WiFi code"

Not grasping the rudeness of his own demands, she says "I tell everyone the same thing, BevinKoyleIsACunt"

He stormed off oblivious to how helpful she had been each time. I still raise a wry smile whenever I remember how supremely helpful she had been.

The problem is "Opt-out means no housing".

From TFA

The renter 404 Media spoke to said the same “credential-harvesting model now dominates Georgia rentals.” They pointed to other companies such as PayScore, Nova Credit (whose leadership includes an Argyle co-founder), and Snappt which also uses Argyle

Sounds like Georgia is at least one. You need the attention span to read through an otherwise terrible article to get to that point though.

Atlanta (so, Georgia) is mentioned, though I don't think it's any particular state as the focus is on two screening services landlords may use. (similar to how Sterling works for background checks, but more invasive)