---
title: "Lease clause: smart-building data, surveillance devices and AI analytics"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/commercial-property-and-leasing/smart-building-data-and-ai-clause"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a10-smart-building-data-and-ai-clause"
area_id: "A10"
kind: "clause"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-17"
---

# 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.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/commercial-property-and-leasing/smart-building-data-and-ai-clause  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-17

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## Key facts

- Kind: Clause. Wording to drop into a longer document.
- Practice area: [Commercial Property & Leasing](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/commercial-property-and-leasing.md)
- Jurisdictions: New South Wales, Australia
- AI level: Yellow. AI can help in set ways. A lawyer checks specific points before use.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-17
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-17 against the 3 authorities it cites, for New South Wales and Australia.

## 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.

## Authorities

- [Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) s 6 (sensitive information includes biometric information used for automated verification or identification) and Sch 1 APPs 3, 5, 6 and 11](https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A03712/latest/text)
- [Surveillance Devices Act 2007 (NSW) ss 7–8 (listening and optical surveillance devices)](https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/act-2007-064#sec.7)
- [Workplace Surveillance Act 2005 (NSW) ss 10–11 (notice and camera surveillance of employees)](https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/act-2005-047#sec.10)

## Full text and drafting notes

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*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*