Today's cover: James Dolan uses facial software to boot lawyer he hates from Radio City
Kelly Conlon, 44, was chaperoning her 9-year-old daughter’s Girl Scout troop to see the Radio City Christmas Spectacular last month whenWhat landed the New Jersey-based attorney on the naughty no-entry list? Her job.She said she was forced to spend 90 minutes wandering around outside in the rain while her daughter caught the show with the rest of her troop inside.
Conlon’s ticket was scanned outside the venue and the incident, first reported by NBC 4 News, occurred “about 20 seconds” after she walked inside the illustrious Art Deco hall and had cleared the metal detector, she said.“I heard them say, ‘Woman with long dark hair and gray scarf.’ I kept walking because no one stopped me,” said Conlon, who was then asked to produce ID before being escorted out.
But that hasn’t stopped MSG Entertainment from apparently adding pictures of the dozens of employees of her law firm into their database.Radio City notifies guests of facial recognition using Biometric Identifier information as a safety measure.While presumably meant to block out the likes of terrorists, the big brother technology is apparently now being used to settle petty vendettas.
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