The ‘Enemies List’ at Madison Square Garden

<p>With little warning or regulation, companies are increasingly using facial recognition technology on their customers — as a security measure, they say.</p><p>But what happens when the systems are actually being used to punish the companies’ enemies?</p><p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/kashmir-hill?smid=pc-thedaily">Kashmir Hill</a>, a technology reporter for The New York Times. </p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Madison Square Garden Entertainment, the owner of the arena, has put lawyers who represent people suing it on<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/nyregion/madison-square-garden-facial-recognition.html"> an “exclusion list”</a> to keep them out of concerts and sporting events.</li><li>Some have<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/technology/madison-square-garden-ban-lawyers.html"> undermined the company’s ban</a> by using a law passed in 1941 to protect theater critics.</li></ul><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>.</p><p>Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.</p>