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Madison Square Garden’s surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design. And he didn’t even wear it to the venue. (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 days ago by RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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[–] Uli@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I used to work for the company that creates the facial recognition system inside MSG. Three guesses why I don't work there anymore.

[–] Glitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thin scratchy toilet paper in the office bathrooms?

[–] Uli@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 days ago

That was a big factor, sure. But no, it was the "deconfliction" queue they made for Texas DPS to track repeated facial recognition hits without any evidence tying the suspect to the crime scene - in theory identifying repeat offenders, but in practice, targeting black and brown people whose faces are likely to be harder for facial recognition to differentiate and therefore they may end up with random no-knock warrants on their names having never actually committed any crime. That toilet paper though... it's in the running.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

You have a soul?