Lawmakers unveil bill to ban facial recognition at MSG
New York lawmakers have introduced legislation that would prohibit the use of facial recognition technology at Madison Square Garden, the major entertainment and sports venue in Manhattan.
Why this matters: MSG has used facial recognition to identify and turn away attorneys involved in lawsuits against the arena's owner. That is not security — that is using surveillance to manage legal opponents. Anyone attending a concert or game becomes a face in a database, scanned without meaningful notice or consent. A ban here is narrow, but the principle matters: private venues should not get to run their own biometric identification programs on the public just because they own the door.
Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity · General readers · Policy
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