Kashmir HillDec 23, 2022
After the report about the Girl Scout mom getting booted from Radio City Music Hall, I spent the last two days reporting out the use of facial recognition technology by the Madison Square Garden empire to keep hundreds of lawyers that work for firms that have sued it from attending concerts, sporting events and shows. It is a radical use of the technology by a private company and I am truly shocked by how forthright MSG is about its real-world block list. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/nyregion/madison-square-garden-facial-recognition.html
Madison Square Garden Uses Facial Recognition to Ban Its Owner’s Enemies

MSG Entertainment, the owner of the arena and Radio City Music Hall, has put lawyers who represent people suing it on an “exclusion list” to keep them out of concerts and sporting events.

The New York Times
Show threadRich Seymour
@kashhill I went to a concert at MSG a month or so after 9/11. IIRC they handed out or widely posted “wanted if seen” posters with a sketch of a terrorist who might attack. This feels similar to me only aided by tech and surprisingly effective. A false positive would be news to me, but oddly in this case a person could probably prove they weren’t the lawyer in question with an ID card. An unnamed “terrorist” look a like couldn’t. Not saying this is cool or good, but it’s normal and more targeted than past attempts.
Dec 23, 2022 at 12:57pmWeb