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Major NYC venues Radio City Music Hall and Madison Square Garden are now requiring facial recognition for entry. The rollout sparks privacy concerns among patrons.
Major venues in New York—Radio City Music Hall and Madison Square Garden—are now scanning people's faces as a condition of entry. It's not optional; you want to go to a concert or event, your face gets scanned and run through a database.
Facial recognition isn't neutral technology. It identifies you, tracks you, and creates records. Requiring it for routine commercial activities normalizes constant identification. The venues are saying they want it for security, but the effect is that going to entertainment in major cities now means submitting to identification. It's a ratchet that tightens incrementally.
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