MSG Defends Using Facial Recognition to Kick Lawyer Out of Rockettes Show

When Kelly Conlon joins her daughter’s Girl Scout troop on a fun outing to watch the Rockettes perform their act Christmas Spectacular While performing at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, she didn’t know she’d be kicked out of the show as soon as she stepped into the building.

The security stopped Conlon, NBC New York reports, because she is a lawyer in New Jersey. Madison Square Garden Entertainment appears to have begun using facial recognition technology to identify any visitors to any of its venues, including Radio City Music Hall, who have been implicated by any of the law firms previously suing MSG Entertainment.

Conlon never practiced law in New York, nor was he personally involved in the lawsuit against MSG Entertainment. Instead, she is guilty of the association as a partner in Davis, Saperstein and Solomon, which has been embroiled in a lawsuit for years against a restaurant that, according to NBC, is “now under the umbrella of MSG Entertainment.”

According to Conlon, she became aware of this alleged conflict of interest when security guards approached her in the lobby of Radio City Music Hall, just as she was going through a metal detector. Through the loudspeaker, Conlon heard a warning about a woman wearing a gray scarf before security confirmed it was about her and told her, “We recognize you.”

Conlon was escorted out despite assuring security “I’m not a lawyer working on any case against MSG.” Ars could not immediately reach MSG for comment, but in a statement, MSG said the same thing would happen to any lawyers involved with her firm, claiming her firm had “twice notified” of MSG’s policies.

“MSG has established an immediate policy that prohibits attorneys with active litigation against the company from attending events at our venue until the litigation is resolved,” said the statement provided to NBC. “While we understand this policy has disappointed some, we cannot ignore the fact that litigation creates an inherently unfavorable environment.”

A sort of new york times report It is suggested that MSG began “quietly” using facial recognition technology in 2018 to “enhance security”. Ars could not immediately reach Conlon for comment, but she told NBC she posed no threat on the Rockettes, insisting, “I’m just a mom who takes her daughter to a Christmas show.” She described her experience as “embarrassing.” and “humiliating”.

Instead of attending the festival show with her daughter, Conlon waited outside. NBC reported that other blacklisted individuals have sued MSG over the policy, seeing it as MSG’s way of punishing law firms that go after the entertainment giant.