Madison Square Garden's list of activists critical of the company raises freedom of expression concerns
"Madison Square Garden Made Dossier on Activists Who Opposed Facial Recognition" 23 June 2026
Madison Square Garden compiled a list of activists who have publicly criticized the venue’s use of facial recognition technology, putting their tweets and comments into a document that was then accessible to other people inside the company, 404 Media has found...
...The document, titled “Facial Recognition Activists.docx” and included in a folder named “Activists,” lists three people who have criticized MSG’s use of facial recognition: Evan Greer, director of digital rights group Fight for the Future; Albert Fox Cahn, founder-in-residence of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP); and the EFF’s Schwartz. All three of the activists have been quoted in major media articles discussing MSG’s facial recognition technology, including in NPR and The New York Times...
...It is not clear who wrote the document. MSG did not respond to a request for comment...