According to a report from NBC New York, an attorney from New Jersey said she wasn't allowed to see a Rockettes show at Radio City Music Hall after she was identified by a facial recognition system. Conlon said she wasn't allowed to be in the lobby because of her connection to a legal case against the company that owned the hall.
She claimed that she was asked to identify herself and that they knew her name before she told them. They were aware of the firm I was associated with before I mentioned it to them. She says she waited outside for her daughter to finish watching the show.
Radio City has a sign that says it has a number of security measures, including facial recognition.
Madison Square Garden Entertainment is the owner of Radio City and many other venues. It makes it clear that it uses technology. We have always made it clear to our guests and to the public that we use facial recognition as one of our tools to provide a safe and secure environment and we will continue to use it to protect against the entry of individuals who we have prohibited from entering our venues
The company refused to give any information about its system. Some companies sell these systems to businesses and governments. According to a report from The New York Times, the company was testing facial recognition systems by the beginning of next year. As NBC shows in its report, the company has posted signs at the venue to let people know that security uses facial recognition.
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Conlon is a lawyer at a firm that is involved in a lawsuit against the Madison Square Garden. She told NBC that she hasn't worked on the case, but that the company's policy is to not allow attorneys from firms pursuing active litigation against the company to attend events until that litigation has been resolved. The reason for that is that litigation creates a hostile environment. All impacted attorneys were notified of the policy, as well as Conlon's firm.
Some courts don't like the stance of MSG.
From a legal point of view, the policy has been controversial. When lawyers from another case brought it up, the judge who presided over two different Musk cases this year said it was the dumbest thing he had ever read.
In a separate case, a judge ruled that anyone with a valid ticket can enter a show, even if they don't have a ticket. The company didn't say if it had systems in place that would have stopped Conlon from buying a ticket.
The law firms were told that they weren't allowed onto the premises and that they could lose their tickets. The question of whether the ban is allowed will be argued in many courtrooms over the next few years. In New York, it is legal for businesses to use facial recognition, and reports show that the NYC government has received millions of dollars in funding for its own systems. Schools aren't supposed to use facial recognition in at least a few instances
Facial recognition systems are not accepted everywhere. While their ability to match faces to an identity in a database makes them attractive to governments and businesses, there are members of the public that are against their use.
Studies suggest that facial recognition systems are less accurate when identifying people who aren't white. People have been arrested after being identified by facial recognition software as someone they aren't.
Some states and cities have passed laws meant to curb police and other government agencies' access to the tech, and massive tech companies like IBM and Amazon have weighed in on different sides of the debate. After it was accused of building its database with pictures taken from social networks without users' knowledge, the facial recognition firm said it would stop selling to private companies.
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