🇺🇸 영어 원문
Kate Taylor — WIRED Security, August 14, 2026
Photograph: Evan Bernstein/Getty Images
Privacy advocates and musicians rallied outside Madison Square Garden on Friday, pushing for new legislation to prevent facial-recognition technology at the venue and other public spaces in New York City.
“MSG and its CEO, James Dolan, have been flagrantly abusing biotechnology,” City Council member Shahana Hanif said at the event on Friday, after leading a chant of “ban the scan.” In January, Hanif proposed a bill that would prohibit public venues from using biometric recognition tech such as Madison Square Garden’s facial-recognition systems.
Madison Square Garden is well-known for its biometric data collection practices. As WIRED has previously reported, fans who are critical of Dolan or the New York Knicks can end up on watch lists, their faces filed in MSG’s extensive database. In one instance, MSG security tracked the movements of a specific fan at a Knicks game down to the minute, cataloging their movements, who they spoke with, when they ate, and where they sat. Hundreds of lawyers involved in disputes with Dolan or Dolan-owned properties have been banned from Dolan’s venues, including a mother who was blocked from taking her daughter to a Radio City Music Hall show.
In July, WIRED reported that MSG also maintains a database that assigns risk scores to around 400 celebrities and VIPs. Some of the dossiers also include the race and sexual orientation of those who attend the arena. MSG filed a defamation lawsuit against WIRED later that month.
At the rally on Friday, Hanif was joined by Brooklyn-based country musician Paisley Fields, a representative from the democratic-socialist working group NYC DSA Tech Action, and members of the digital rights advocacy group Fight for the Future.
Hanif’s “Ban the Scan” bill now has 27 endorsements, more than half of the City Council. Members are in talks with speaker Julie Menin about advancing the legislation, according to Hanif.
“People have been recognizing each other’s faces since the beginning of time—we just do it electronically,” an MSG spokesperson said in an emailed statement.
Hanif tells WIRED that, as a Muslim who grew up in post-9/11 New York, surveillance isn’t new. However, she says, many may not understand the extent of the surveillance that they’re exposed to simply by attending a Knicks game or a concert at Madison Square Garden or one of its associated venues. The fact that Dolan, who has a long relationship with President Donald Trump, is the one collecting the data worries Hanif even more.
“New Yorkers need to understand, right now, between AI and all these tools that are being sold to us as being for … our city’s safety, are actually making us less safe,” Hanif says.
🇰🇷 한국어 요약
이번 기사는 뉴욕의 유명 경기장 매디슨 스퀘어 가든(MSG)에서 사용된 얼굴 인식 기술과 개인정보 감시 문제를 다룹니다. 일부 팬이나 예술인, 법률 전문가가 보안 시스템에 얼굴 정보를 등록되거나 위험 점수를 부여받았다는 보도가 이어졌어요. 그러자 뉴욕 시의원들은 공개된 체육관, 공연장 등 공공 시설에서 생체 인식 기술을 쓰지 못하도록 하는 법안을 추진하고 있습니다. 청소년 여러분은 AI 얼굴 인식이 편의를 줄 수 있지만, 어디서든 감시당할 수 있다는 점을 생각해야 합니다. 기술이 우리 삶에 깊숙이 들어올수록, 내 얼굴 정보와 데이터가 어떻게 쓰이는지 알 권리가 중요하다는 점을 기억하세요.
🔑 핵심 단어 (Vocabulary)
- biometric – 생체 정보와 관련된 – biometric recognition tech such as Madison Square Garden’s facial-recognition systems
- surveillance – 감시, 관찰 – many may not understand the extent of the surveillance that they’re exposed to
- facial-recognition – 얼굴 인식 – pushing for new legislation to prevent facial-recognition technology at the venue
- legislation – 법, 입법 – pushing for new legislation to prevent facial-recognition technology
- database – 데이터베이스, 정보 저장소 – their faces filed in MSG’s extensive database
- privacy – 사생활, 개인정보 보호 – privacy advocates and musicians rallied outside Madison Square Garden
- venues – 시설, 공연장이나 경기장 같은 장소 – prohibit public venues from using biometric recognition tech
- risk scores – 위험 점수 – MSG also maintains a database that assigns risk scores to around 400 celebrities and VIPs
- endorsements – 찬성, 지지 – Hanif’s “Ban the Scan” bill now has 27 endorsements
- spokesperson – 대변인 – an MSG spokesperson said in an emailed statement
🔗 원문 링크
https://www.wired.com/story/new-york-city-lawmakers-push-to-ban-the-scan-at-msg/