Image Recognition
But then he learned that MSG uses facial recognition to identify the attorneys on its enemies list, apparently with photos scraped from the law firms’ own websites. Whatever the motivation, MSG’s policy would be almost impossible to enforce without facial recognition technology, which has been used sparingly by corporations due to privacy concerns. Cahn also noted that using facial recognition for crowd surveillance, as MSG is doing, is “exponentially” more error prone than traditional facial recognition searches. State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal told the Rag that he will “absolutely” be proposing legislation to protect New Yorkers’ biometric privacy. MSG has until February 13th to respond to those concerns and confirm that its use of facial recognition technology is not discriminatory.