This is enormously fucked up.

Per NBC4 NY reporter Sarah Wallace on the bird site: A mom was kicked out of Christmas Rockettes show at MSG-owned Radio City after being tagged by *facial recognition* technology, which identified her as someone who works a law firm involved in a suit against a restaurant now owned by MSG.

"I don’t practice in New York. I’m not an attorney that works on any cases against MSG," she said.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/face-recognition-tech-gets-girl-scout-mom-booted-from-rockettes-show-due-to-her-employer/4004677/

Face Recognition Tech Gets Girl Scout Mom Booted From Rockettes Show — Due to Where She Works

Kelly Conlon took her daughter to see the Rockettes in the Christmas Spectacular in NYC, but was not allowed in after facial recognition identified her because…

NBC New York
@zackwhittaker our dystopic future is here.
@dangoodin @zackwhittaker been here for a moment but only just now is the zeitgeist starting to notice
@zackwhittaker I love that the mom is going after the liquor license. From a PR viewpoint, nobody will remember this in a week, but taking away their ability to sell beer and wine? that would actually hurt them in a massive, unbelievable way.
@zackwhittaker Somebody needs to run for office on an anti-James Dolan platform. Who would be opposed?!

@zackwhittaker While we understand this policy is disappointing to some, we cannot ignore the fact that litigation creates an inherently adverse environment. All impacted attorneys were notified of the policy, including Davis, Saperstein and Salomon, which was notified twice,"

James Dolan is big baby.

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Not hard to see where this is going. 'Sorry, you're denied boarding/entering/dining/renting because you posted a bad review of us.'

Capitalism has come up with an alternative to China's Social Credit system.

@greengordon @zackwhittaker yeah that’s really creepy.. Are we all going to be scanned by AI before going anywhere now? That’s creepy and invasive.
@zackwhittaker Another example of why #facialrecognition and #ai need to be regulated.
@zackwhittaker @hacks4pancakes as someone who grew up in NY, I am not shocked that the Dolan family would stoop to this level of pettiness.

@zackwhittaker how very.... American.

Gatsby would be proud.

@zackwhittaker've been wondering when Elon would start bricking Teslas if their drivers are picked up on in-carr microphones mentioning Mastodon or criticizing him.
@zackwhittaker Anyone who thinks dystopia is not here right now is missing a lot of news.

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And that posed a security risk how?

@zackwhittaker @yaelwrites i bought a set of these out of curiosity a few years ago. they confound one of my workplace’s facial recognition. i think mine were pre-ir lenses- they definitely are now, as i put rx lenses in.

haven’t tried the less sparkly ir ones yet or the clipons

https://www.reflectacles.com/order/ghost

Ghost — Reflectacles Privacy Eyewear & Sunglasses: Anti Facial Recognition Glasses since 2015.

Reflectacles Privacy Eyewear & Sunglasses: Anti Facial Recognition Glasses since 2015.
@zackwhittaker As much or more than this a story about the dangers of technologies like facial recognition, it's a story about the failure of policy and the law to prohibit technology from being used in this way and stop this type of thing from happening. As @pluralistic has noted, large and powerful corporate actors will always use and abuse technology to do whatever governments let them get away with.

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This just came up in a lawsuit in Delaware, bc attorneys challenging an MSG merger was banned as well. The Dolans adopted the policy in July.

https://www.law360.com/articles/1546343/chancery-bars-queries-on-madison-square-garden-atty-ban

Chancery Bars Queries On Madison Square Garden Atty Ban - Law360

Shareholders who sued Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. over a 2021 merger may not question its in-house counsel about a company policy that bars attorneys from law firms litigating with the company from attending events at its entertainment venues, a Delaware chancellor said Thursday.

corruption is the only constant in the united states corporate hell.

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It would be difficult to catalogue all of the ways in which this could be (and probably will be) abused. Technologies are being developed and deployed at rates far in excess of law and society to keep up.

@zackwhittaker wow… things are getting ridiculous 😳
@zackwhittaker @deadsuperhero Welcome to corporate Stasi. It’s going to get worse.
@zackwhittaker curious how MSG generates and maintains a block list of individuals. This wasn't a previous customer who caused a disturbance. In social media, this would be like prebanning users from a conversation because by association
@zackwhittaker More to the point, WHY is Radio City Music Hall using facial recognition, and WHAT are they doing with the data they acquire?
@samhainnight @zackwhittaker I agree. I don't understand the logic to invest in such tech, for what? Would make more sense to get metal detectors to me...Way over the top
@So @zackwhittaker Yeah, at least metal detectors are honest about what they're looking for. Facial recognition creates datasets that can be cross referenced as to where a person went, what they did and who they did it with. It's a massive privacy breach and safety concern.

@zackwhittaker We're living in one of the worst possible versions of my 60's childhood visions of the future.

I knew all of *this*, and much worse, was possible but naively believed we'd never let things get this bad, and that most of the bad things I knew back then would be *so* much better by now.

Wrong.

The incremental improvements on some things only have us nose deep, drowning more slowly, but still drowning under the relentless waves of oppression.

@zackwhittaker The machines exhibit growing pains.
@zackwhittaker whoa that is some ‘Person of Interest’ level shit right there

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Guess she should sue them, such discrimination is illegal.

@zackwhittaker new norms just boutta go live on production servers for human society..dev testing is clearly complete here, limited beta well underway.
@zackwhittaker that's crazy! That's discrimination...
@zackwhittaker was sold a ticket so, pretty sure she will be working a case against them - her own