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Face-off at the Garden: Pols, activists blasts James Dolan, MSG owners for allegedly using facial recognition to ban unwanted fans

By Dean Moses Posted on January 15, 2023
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Benjamin Pinczewski happens to be a New York Rangers fan, and a member of a law firm currently working on a lawsuit against Madison Square Garden. When he recently attended one of the Broadway Blueshirts’ games on their home ice, he found himself unceremoniously given the boot from the “World’s Most Famous Arena.”

It led to charges that MSG, under its CEO James Dolan, has been regularly using facial recognition technology to keep certain individuals out of the Garden that management does not want. According to state Senator Brad Hoylman, Pinczewski was the fourth person to be removed from MSG recently as a result of the program.

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Face-off at the Garden: Pols, activists blasts James Dolan, MSG owners for allegedly using facial recognition to ban unwanted fans

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