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Noah Shachtman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
327 total appearances

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Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

They've got cameras implemented in their metal detection apparatus.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

And those cameras then run the E-Connect, the Burger King, the Hakkasan nightclub algorithms.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

And they're able to do it incredibly fast.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

Some are bragging that they could do it like 40 people a minute, that 40 faces a minute they can spot, identify, and then send on to MSG security.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

Yeah, that's it this season.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

But there is a real movement afoot in pro sports and entertainment to use your face for everything, right?

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

We went from paper tickets to digital tickets.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

Now they want to go from digital tickets to faces for everything to get into an arena, to buy your booze.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

If maybe you're a VIP, you get an upgrade.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

At SoFi, for example, according to the E-Connect website, they say that, quote, every face that enters is automatically enrolled, allowing for historical search, alert triggers, and association tracking.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

Yeah, yeah.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

Dolan claims this is all about terrorism.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

So, I mean, they may talk a lot about stopping terrorism, but multiple MSG insiders that I talked to said that they tried to incorporate in information from the FBI's most wanted list and what have you.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

Yeah.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

Because, look, the guard and staff, like the guys that were going to tackle Charles Oakley, they're not trained to stop, you know, Osama bin Laden.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

One source told me, quote, if you upload the list, what's the protocol?

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

You're going to ask your union security guards to go after the guy?

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

If you get a hit, the FBI will shut down the whole arena.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

They're not.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

And NYPD representative told me the department doesn't send any facial recognition data, any data to the garden for this purpose.