The ‘Enemies List’ at Madison Square Garden

In December, Nicolette Landi had tickets to see a Mariah Carey show at Madison Square Garden. But she was turned away at the door — she had been flagged by a facial recognition system and was, it turned out, on the arena’s watch list.

Ms. Landi was not a traditional security threat; she is a personal injury lawyer. The problem? Her firm was in a fight with the company that operates Madison Square Garden, and she had been caught in the middle.

Guest: Kashmir Hill, a technology reporter for The New York Times. 

Background reading: 

• Madison Square Garden Entertainment, the owner of the arena, has put lawyers who represent people suing it on an “exclusion list” to keep them out of concerts and sporting events.
• Some have undermined the company’s ban by using a law passed in 1941 to protect theater critics.

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