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On Friday, WIRED published a story outlining the disturbing level to which Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corporation and its billionaire CEO James Dolan have erected a surveillance network both in and beyond their venues in New York City.
It's been known for a while that MSG, which also owns the Knicks and the Rangers, has taken the extraordinary step of using facial recognition technology installed at its venues, including the Garden, Radio City Music Hall, and the Beacon Theatre, to issue spiteful blanket bans on lawyers who happen to work at firms engaged in litigation associated with their group of venues. Remember the Girl Scout mom kicked out of the Rockettes at Radio City in 2022? (As well as the time when Dolan sent a private detective to camp outside the home of a State Liquor Authority investigator?)