Madison Square Garden facial recognition tech was used to track a trans woman as she moved about the venue

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Report: Trans Woman Tracked for 2 Years at MSG
Wired lays out secrets behind surveillance system at Dolan-owned sports/concert venue in NYC


'Big Brother' Has Apparently Infiltrated Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden. (Getty Images/Michael Muller)
Fans headed to Madison Square Garden may be walking into more than a basketball arena, according to a detailed Wired investigation into owner James Dolan's growing surveillance apparatus. The story, based on a whistleblower lawsuit and interviews with seven current and former security staffers, describes an operation that uses facial-recognition technology and other tools not just for safety, but to track critics, bar perceived enemies, and monitor people even beyond Dolan's venues. At the center of the report is the case of "Nina Richards," a transgender Knicks fan whose every move at the Garden was logged over a two-year span—what time she scanned her ticket, who she hugged, when she used the bathroom—allegedly because Dolan's security chief, John Eversole, wanted her kept away from players.

Ex-staffers say she posed no threat, however, and call the monitoring discriminatory; she was later banned after what they describe as a fabricated stalking allegation. The piece portrays a security culture led by Eversole, a former corporate and military security official who, per ex-employees and court filings, carried a gun in the office, encouraged others to do the same, and pushed staff to "cosplay as cops" by stopping traffic, chasing scalpers, and observing protests near MSG properties without keeping the NYPD in the loop

https://www.newser.com/story/387572/big-brother-has-apparently-infiltrated-madison-square-garden.html

[mercuryblues]

1. 1984

[chowder66]

2. This is soooo fucked up.

[Solly Mack]

3. Damn

[Initech]

4. James Dolan is one evil fuck.