{"id":134306,"date":"2026-08-17T08:34:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T12:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/protest-against-the-use-of-facial-recognition-at-madison-square-garden\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T08:34:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T12:34:20","slug":"protest-against-the-use-of-facial-recognition-at-madison-square-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/national\/protest-against-the-use-of-facial-recognition-at-madison-square-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest against the use of facial recognition at Madison Square Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tension in New York: Demands to stop the use of facial recognition in large venues<\/h2>\n\n<p>Activists and digital privacy advocates gathered in the vicinity of Madison Square Garden with a clear goal: to demand that strict limits be established on the use of facial recognition technologies and biometric data collection in public and private spaces in the Big Apple. The protest highlights the growing concern over how sensitive information of attendees at sporting and cultural events is managed.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The legislative debate in the City Council<\/h3>\n\n<p>New York City Council Member Shahana Hanif has positioned herself at the forefront of legislative initiatives seeking to restrict these practices. The scope of these proposals is significant, as it aims to regulate surveillance in major entertainment venues, including the iconic Radio City Music Hall and Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n\n<p>Critics argue that the use of these technological tools goes far beyond basic security. There is a fear that biometrics could be used as a tool for selective exclusion to prevent access to specific individuals for discretionary reasons or conflicts of interest unrelated to public safety.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">The discussion is not limited solely to security, but encompasses the handling, storage, and potential selective use of sensitive personal information of thousands of citizens.<\/p>\n<cite>Privacy activists<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background and security risks<\/h3>\n\n<p>During the demonstration, a controversial case at Radio City Music Hall was recalled, where a woman was denied entry due to her employment connection with a law firm that was involved in litigation against companies associated with businessman James Dolan. This incident is used by activists as an example of how technology can be employed to arbitrarily ban people.<\/p>\n\n<p>Furthermore, privacy advocates point out critical technical risks:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The danger of massive biometric data leaks due to cyberattacks.<\/li><li>The lack of transparency regarding who has access to such records.<\/li><li>The absence of clear criteria regarding the storage duration of the information.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conflicting positions<\/h3>\n\n<p>While the New York City Council seeks to balance the scales, positions remain divided. On one hand, some commercial sectors defend the technology as an effective mechanism for crime prevention. For its part, the Madison Square Garden administration maintains that facial recognition is simply a technological evolution of the human capacity to identify other individuals, defending its use as a necessary protective measure.<\/p>\n\n<p>The future of this technology in the city will depend on upcoming legislative resolutions, which must decide whether the right to individual privacy takes precedence over corporate surveillance tools in New York&#8217;s most crowded spaces.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tension in New York: Demands to stop the use of facial recognition in large venues Activists and digital privacy advocates gathered in the vicinity of Madison Square Garden with a clear goal: to demand that strict limits be established on the use of facial recognition technologies and biometric data collection in public and private spaces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[7873,7239,1948,13609],"class_list":{"0":"post-134306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-biometrics","9":"tag-facial-recognition","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-privacy"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}