An attorney from a law firm suing the parent company of Radio City Music Hall was kicked out of the venue while trying to see a Rockettes performance with her daughter and a pack of Girl Scouts after facial recognition technology identified her.
Kelly Conlon, a senior associate with the New Jersey personal injury firm Davis, Saperstein and Salomon — which is representing a client suing a restaurant owned by the parent company, MSG Entertainment — told NBC New York that security guards approached her and asked for identification as soon as she arrived to see the show on the weekend after Thanksgiving. The guards ultimately turned her away from the show even though she is not involved in her firm’s litigation against the company, though Conlon’s daughter and the rest of the Girl Scouts were able to attend the performance, she told the station.
“I was just a mom taking my daughter to see a Christmas show,” she told NBC New York. “I did wait outside…It was embarrassing, it was mortifying.” …
“Taking a mother, separating a mother from her daughter and Girl Scouts she was watching over — and to do it under the pretext of protecting any disclosure of litigation information — is absolutely absurd,” Davis told NBC New York. “The fact they’re using facial recognition to do this is frightening. It’s un-American to do this.”
[Utterly absurd, and no small amount unnerving. — Ed]
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