Madison Square Garden compiled a list of activists who criticized its use of facial recognition technology and made this list accessible to internal employees.

"...Madison Square Garden compiled a list of activists who have publicly criticized the venue’s use of facial recognition technology, putting their tweets and comments into a document that was then accessible to other people inside the company, 404 Media has found...." https://www.404media.co/madison-square-garden-made-dossier-on-activists-who-opposed-facial-recognition/ #privacy

"Madison Square Garden compiled a list of activists who have publicly criticized the venue’s use of facial recognition technology, putting their tweets and comments into a document that was then accessible to other people inside the company, 404 Media has found. The news shows that MSG, operated by Jim Dolan who has garnered a reputation for being pernicious against his perceived enemies, is not only deploying controversial facial recognition technology but keeping track of specific people who take issue with it. The document was included in a 45GB cache of data hackers stole from MSG and posted online this month, which 404 Media then downloaded and reviewed. “The wake of a data breach would be a good time for Madison Square Garden to stop subjecting its patrons to biometric surveillance,” Adam Schwartz, privacy litigation director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and one of the people included in the document, told 404 Media." https://www.404media.co/madison-square-garden-made-dossier-on-activists-who-opposed-facial-recognition/ #USA #NYC #Surveillance #MadisonSquareGarden #FacialRecognition #Privacy #DigitalRights #Biometrics