Clause · Commercial Property & Leasing
Lease clause: smart-building data, surveillance devices and AI analytics
Lease clause allocating control of building and occupancy data, limiting landlord surveillance and AI analytics (including facial recognition), and setting privacy, security, access and deletion obligations.
- Kind
- Clause. Wording to drop into a longer document.
- Where it applies
- New South Wales, Australia
- AI use
- Yellow AI can help in set ways. A lawyer checks specific points before use.
- Law stated as at
- 17 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked on 17 October 2026 against the 3 authorities it cites, for New South Wales and Australia.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Use in office, retail or industrial leases where the building has sensors, access control, cameras or analytics platforms, or the landlord wants to use occupancy data. Choose the landlord-friendly or tenant-friendly options; do not use without checking how the building systems actually work.
How AI may be used
AI may draft clause variants and compare them with the landlord's building data terms; a lawyer selects the options after confirming the building systems and the privacy position of both parties.
AI may
- Draft alternative versions of the clause for landlord-friendly and tenant-friendly positions.
- Summarise the landlord's building technology schedule or data policy against the clause.
- List privacy and surveillance issues raised by a described system for the lawyer to assess.
AI must not
- Must not assume how a building system collects or uses data; get written details from the landlord or its provider.
- Must not decide whether either party is covered by the Privacy Act.
- Must not draft consent wording for employees or customers without lawyer review.
The lawyer checks
- The systems schedule lists every device and platform that covers the premises or common areas the tenant uses.
- Facial recognition and other biometric uses are either excluded or subject to express consent and a privacy impact assessment.
- The clause works with the tenant's own workplace surveillance notices and the landlord's privacy policy.
Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.
Read the full text
The full text is for signed-in accounts. It is free. When you sign in you can:
- read the whole precedent, with its drafting notes beside it;
- copy it, or download it as a Word file or Markdown;
- add it to your firm’s knowledge base, so colleagues can find it;
- let the AI tools you connect read it from that knowledge base.
The summary, the law it rests on and the AI-use guidance above stay public. Privacy.
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