Polychrome Dec 22, 2022
The bit about a lawyer being stopped from entering a music hall in the US because its facial recognition system picked up that she's part of a law company that's suing them is even crazier than I thought.

The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.

People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.

If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
MSG defends using facial recognition to kick lawyer out of Rockettes show

MSG Entertainment began using facial recognition at venues in 2018.

Ars Technica
Show threadSilversalty

@Polychrome
This is one of the problems for entertainers. Monopoly on venues. This seems a basis for suit, blocked from taking a child to a show.

I wonder if this was used to capture the people in Penn Station that came to the city for a planned crime.

https://abc7ny.com/antisemitism-terrorism-penn-station-weapons/12477284/

Mayor Adams says threat against NYC synagogues was not idle

Christopher Brown told investigators he has a "sick personality" and tweeted that he was going to ask a priest "if I should become a husband or shoot up a synagogue and die," according to the criminal complaint.

ABC7 New York
Dec 22, 2022 at 3:27amWeb
Show threadPolychrome Dec 22, 2022
@Silversalty the child wasn't blocked, she ended up going inside without her mother.
Show threadSilversaltyDec 22, 2022
@Polychrome
Someone else to stay with?
Still, not a valid basis for refusal. A family occasion. No danger. No threat of demonstration.
Show threadallthegoodtakenDec 22, 2022
@Polychrome @Silversalty Yes that will be improved in version 2. The whole familiy will be blocked. Guilty by association.