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gorgoiler ◴[] No.43513110[source]
If they pulled Miller out of the line and only then checked his photo ID, and the allegation is they used facial recognition to trigger this, then that implies they already had his biometrics in their database.

The legal disclaimer shown at the venue implies that the biometrics are collected (and “retained, stored, and converted”) at the venue. That’s clearly only half of the story. They must also be collecting (and retaining, storing, and converting) information about anyone using sources outside the venue.

The implication from chronology of the story is that MSG must have done something like googled Miller, found his LinkedIn bio-pic, and put that in their “safety and security” database?

I think we can conclude therefore that the disclaimer sign is not a quasi-legal disclaimer to let the venue record your face, but in fact a canard to divert your attention from the fact that they have already created records linking your face to your name — records created without your consent and without letting you know they did it.

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conradfr ◴[] No.43514184[source]
They scrap adversarial law firms websites for photos of employees to ban them so yeah.
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t0mas88 ◴[] No.43516450[source]
Is that legal? This would be a clear GDPR violation in Europe.

You could probably argue a legitimate interest if you're collecting face recognition data on proven hooligans, but scraping pictures of people that have not been to your venue off a website clearly isn't a legitimate interest for such privacy invasion.

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1. rahimnathwani ◴[] No.43517265[source]
If a 3-person law firm is suing you, and the law firm has a web site with photos of its 3 lawyers, it seems reasonable to add those photos to a pinboard at your entrance, so security staff know to look our for those folks, and not to allow them to come into your place of business (unless they arrive for an appointment, e.g. for a deposition).

What if the law firm has thousands of employees and you don't know exactly which ones might be working on your case at any given time? What if your entrance has a high volume of visitors and it's not practical for your security team to stop each of those people for minutes, whilst they check them against a set of thousands of photos?