According to four-zero-four Media, Madison Square Garden compiled a dossier on activists who publicly opposed the venue's use of facial recognition technology. The document surfaced this month in a forty-five gigabyte data cache that hackers stole from MSG, listing three digital rights advocates: Evan Greer of Fight for the Future, Albert Fox Cahn of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, and Adam Schwartz of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The file included their contact information, social media handles, and previous statements about MSG's facial recognition program. This is significant because MSG has been using facial recognition to deny entry to people since twenty eighteen—including lawyers at firms in litigation with the company and critics of the venue's owner, Jim Dolan. The incident raises a critical question: whether corporations will use surveillance technology to target and retaliate against those who question their practices. One of the named activists said this demonstrates why private companies should not be permitted to deploy facial recognition at all.

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