Rally Held Outside MSG over Use of Facial Recognition Technology: 'Ban the Scan'

‘Ban the Scan': Momentum builds to curb MSG facial recognition technology

Facial recognition technology being used at popular venues in New York City is nothing new. Venue owners claims it’s for safety, but some city lawmakers are looking to block the tech because of privacy concerns. One of the largest venues in the city, Madison Square Garden, is at the center of a campaign gaining momentum at City Hall to ban such surveillance tech. “We should not have to give up our faces just to attend a basketball game,” DSA tec…

New York City Lawmakers Push to ‘Ban the Scan’ at MSG

At a press conference outside Madison Square Garden, politicians, musicians, and privacy advocates argued for tighter restrictions on how public venues deploy biometric surveillance.

Rally held outside MSG over use of facial recognition technology: 'Ban the scan'

Privacy advocates rallied outside Madison Square Garden on Friday, urging lawmakers to ban James Dolan's venues from scanning guests' faces.

Momentum builds to ban Madison Square Garden's 'surveillance empire'

Madison Square Garden. A bill to bar private businesses from scanning customers' faces has won the backing of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration and a majority of the City Council, sponsors said Friday. [ more › ]

Advocates, musicians and lawmakers rally outside Madison Square Garden to demand a ban on facial recognition surveillance

NEW YORK, NY— Today, local lawmakers, privacy advocates, artists, organizers, and New Yorkers to demand an end to the use of biometric surveillance in places of public accommodation and call on the City Council to pass City Council Member Shahana Hanif’s bill, Ban the Scan, Int. 213. The rally, organized by Fight for the Future, […]

Fire breaks out atop scaffolding of Flatiron Building near Madison Square Park

FDNY members raced to the scene after a fire broke out Thursday afternoon on the construction scaffolding that continues to wrap parts of the Flatiron Building near Manhattan’s Madison Square Park.  According to law enforcement sources, rescue workers responded to a 911 call about a fire on some of the scaffolding that wraps the historic...