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Privacy advocates and<\/span> musicians rallied outside Madison Square Garden<\/a> on Friday, pushing for new legislation to prevent facial-recognition technology at the venue and other public spaces in New York City.<\/p>\n

\u201cMSG and its CEO, James Dolan, have been flagrantly abusing biotechnology,\u201d City Council member Shahana Hanif said at the event on Friday, after leading a chant of \u201cban the scan.\u201d In January, Hanif proposed a bill<\/a> that would prohibit public venues from using biometric recognition tech such as Madison Square Garden\u2019s facial-recognition systems.<\/p>\n

Madison Square Garden is well-known for its biometric data collection practices<\/a>. As WIRED has previously reported, fans who are critical of Dolan or the New York Knicks can end up on watch lists, their faces filed in MSG\u2019s extensive database. In one instance, MSG security tracked the movements of a specific fan at a Knicks game down to the minute, cataloging their movements, who they spoke with, when they ate, and where they sat. Hundreds of lawyers involved in disputes with Dolan or Dolan-owned properties have been banned from Dolan\u2019s venues, including a mother who was blocked from taking her daughter to a Radio City Music Hall show.<\/p>\n

In July, WIRED reported<\/a> that MSG also maintains a database that assigns risk scores to around 400 celebrities and VIPs. Some of the dossiers also include the race and sexual orientation of those who attend the arena. MSG filed a defamation lawsuit against WIRED later that month.<\/p>\n

At the rally on Friday, Hanif was joined by Brooklyn-based country musician Paisley Fields, a representative from the democratic-socialist working group NYC DSA Tech Action, and members of the digital rights advocacy group Fight for the Future.<\/p>\n

Hanif\u2019s \u201cBan the Scan\u201d bill now has<\/a> 27 endorsements, more than half of the City Council. Members are in talks with speaker Julie Menin about advancing the legislation, according to Hanif.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople have been recognizing each other\u2019s faces since the beginning of time\u2014we just do it electronically,\u201d an MSG spokesperson said in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n

Hanif tells WIRED that, as a Muslim who grew up in post-9\/11 New York, surveillance isn\u2019t new. However, she says, many may not understand the extent of the surveillance that they\u2019re exposed to simply by attending a Knicks game or a concert at Madison Square Garden or one of its associated venues. The fact that Dolan, who has a long relationship with President Donald Trump, is the one collecting the data worries Hanif even more.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew Yorkers need to understand, right now, between AI and all these tools that are being sold to us as being for \u2026 our city\u2019s safety, are actually making us less safe,\u201d Hanif says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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