How short-term vacation rentals use a decades-old internet law to dodge safety concerns | CNN Business

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It has been just over two years since Zach Wiener awoke to the sound of glass breaking and his parents’ screams from the floor below him.

He was in an unfamiliar bedroom, staying in a short-term rental home in Sag Harbor, New York, for a weeklong family vacation with his mother, father and two younger sisters.

Believing the disturbance was due to a home invasion, Wiener jumped out of the window of his second-floor bedroom and called the police.

It wasn’t until he got to the home’s front yard that

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