This is in conversation from Apple News. I'm Shemitz Abasu. Today, how facial recognition technology is upending privacy. Last December, Kelly Conlin was preparing a special outing for her daughter.

She was taking her daughter who was in the Girl Scouts with the troop to see the rockets at Radio City Music Hall.

It was a holiday show.

This is Kashmir Hill, a tech reporter for the New York Times.

And as they try to enter Radio City Music Hall,

Kelly Conlan gets pulled aside and asked for her ID,

and she's informed that she's not allowed in the in the venue.

Kelly had been put on a temporary blacklist because she worked at a law firm that was

suing the owner of the venue who also owned a bunch of other big

event spaces like Madison Square Garden. Kelly wasn't even working on that lawsuit, but when she

entered the building, she was flagged by the venue's facial recognition system.

They had decided to use facial recognition technology to punish their enemies and they weren't

letting thousands of lawyers into their various

venues until they dropped their lawsuits or that resolved the litigation.

The parent company that owns the venue called its facial recognition

policy straightforward, just one of its tools to provide a safe environment.

This idea of using it to really just ban your enemies was a pioneering use of the technology

and I could just imagine all the different ways it could go if more businesses adopted that

practice.

It could really usher in a new era of discrimination, this ability to judge us, track us,

monitor us, ban us.

Cashmere has been reporting on the ways facial recognition technology

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