Sign up for The Agenda, Them’s news and politics newsletter, delivered Thursdays. The security staff for Jim Dolan, the owner of the Knicks, as well as the CEO of Madison Square Garden, allegedly used surveillance technology to track a transgender woman’s near-every movement during her frequent visits to the New York sporting venue, per a bombshell new report in Wired. The report alleges that Dolan has been using face-recognition technology in excessive and intrusive ways since at least 2018, watching a plethora of people, including his personal critics, at both Madison Square Garden, as well as his other properties, including Radio City Music Hall and the Sphere in Las Vegas. The report describes MSG as his own “panopticon.” One of the most obsessively tracked people under Dolan’s alleged paranoid watch has been Nina Richards, a trans woman who, according to Wired, was monitored during a two-year period when she frequented the venue. (Richards is a pseudonym for the woman, who requested the outlet not name her due to privacy concerns.) The report claims that, shortly after the Garden’s reopening in 2021, Richards “became a fixation” for Dolan’s chief security officer John Eversole. Eversole allegedly compiled a dossier on Richards solely for the reason that she was a trans woman and “wanted to keep her away from the players,” per Wired. This reportedly included entering her face into the venue’s facial recognition system. A lawsuit filed by former MSG security vice president Donald Ingrasselino claims that Eversole would show Richards’ picture during weekly meetings, misgender her, and tell his employees to look out for “him or it or whatever it is.” The suit also claimed Richards was targeted “because of her gender identity.” An employee likewise told Wired that “she posed no threat” but was forced to monitor her by Eversole."She
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