{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-blog-post-js","path":"/blog/msg-considered-facial-recognition-technology-to-id-charles-oakley-shattered/","result":{"data":{"site":{"siteMetadata":{"title":"No Frills News"}},"contentfulNfnPost":{"postTitle":"MSG considered facial recognition technology to ID Charles Oakley: ‘Shattered’","slug":"msg-considered-facial-recognition-technology-to-id-charles-oakley-shattered","createdLocal":"2021-05-25 14:30:46.116899","publishDate":"None","feedName":"Image Recognition","sourceUrl":{"sourceUrl":"https://theathletic.com/news/msg-considered-facial-recognition-technology-to-id-charles-oakley-shattered/Zly52V8cGMm8"},"postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"<p>Madison Square Garden considered using facial recognition technology to identify whether former Knicks great Charles Oakley attempted to attend a game at the Garden, according to a former MSG employee who spoke with the podcast \"Shattered: Hope, Heartbreak and the New York Knicks.\"\nIn 2017, a few months after Oakley was removed from the Garden by MSG security, the former employee said he was asked by a manager to build out a plan for how the Garden could run its security cameras through an image recognition system.\nThe system described by the former employee in Episode 8 of the podcast matches a 2018 report from the New York Times revealing MSG’s use of facial recognition technology for security purposes.\nMultiple sources familiar with MSG’s technological capabilities told “Shattered” that the company was developing a multi-purpose image recognition system in 2017.\nEpisode 8 of “Shattered” details the night Oakley was thrown out of the Garden, as well as the internal fallout at MSG from that night.</p>"}}}},"pageContext":{"slug":"msg-considered-facial-recognition-technology-to-id-charles-oakley-shattered"}}}