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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project · 6 · 2d ago "We shouldn’t have to hand over our faces to cheer on the Knicks, catch a concert, or pick up groceries. It’s long past time the City Council pass Intro. 0213 to ban the scan in public accommodations." - STOP Executive Director Michelle Dahl #BanTheScan #MSG #MSGEntertainment
S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project · 18 · 2d ago "Going to a show should not be conditioned on being subjected to invasive, racially biased monitoring that puts fans at risk of getting harassed, falsely arrested, deported, or worse." @fightforthefuture.org's @evangreer.bsky.social #BanTheScan #MSG #MSGEntertainment
S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project · 2 · 2d ago "This kind of mass surveillance opens the door to abuse and discrimination, making consumers in our city uniquely vulnerable. It’s time to ban the scan and protect New Yorkers’ privacy and civil rights." - Department of Consumer and Worker Protection Commissioner Samuel A.A. Levine
S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project · 4 · 2d ago "Madison Square Garden has shown us exactly what happens when corporations are allowed to deploy facial recognition without meaningful limits: they use it to track, profile, and blacklist people they don't like." - @cmshahanahanif.bsky.social #BanTheScan #MSG #MadisonSquareGarden
S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project · 2 · 2d ago "Facial recognition technology is invasive, ripe for abuse, and has reportedly already been used to profile New Yorkers based on their gender identity and sexual orientation." - Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal #BanTheScan #FacialRecognition
S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project · 2 · 2d ago "New Yorkers love the Knicks, but they sure as hell don’t love having their biometric data captured when visiting the Garden...It’s time to Ban the Scan and protect New Yorkers from surveillance in public spaces." - New York City Progressive Caucus Co-Chair @cmsandynurse.bsky.social #Knicks #MSG
S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project · 2 · 2d ago "We should not have to give up our faces to attend a basketball game. We should not have to let our gaits be analyzed just to buy a toothbrush." - @nycdsatech.bsky.social's Raaid Arshad #BanTheScan
S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project · 2 · 2d ago "For years, James Dolan’s Madison Square Garden has weaponized biometric recognition and other forms of surveillance against all its patrons, exposing New Yorkers to retaliation, harassment, invasive monitoring, chilling speech, and putting people at risk of data breaches." @nyclu.org Daniel Schwarz
S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project · 5 · 2d ago "Public facial recognition sparks the normalization of invasive government control, in a society that has become complacent to an already suffocating surveillance culture." - Cristy Road Carrera, Author, Artist, Musician #BanTheScan
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