Watching Fans, Monitoring Kids, Tracking Players: Knicks Surveillance, Revealed | PTFO
The all-seeing eye of notorious owner James Dolan has been caught in glimpses. But a WIRED investigation — revealed in collaboration with Pablo Torre Finds Out — lifts the veil on the Orwellian scope (and occasional clown show) of MSG security, from The Garden and The Sphere to the streets of New York and out across America. Correspondent Noah Shachtman and Pablo hear from spooked insiders, read snooping group chats, scour a second-by-second confidential report, plus view the facial-recognition database itself — only to discover that paranoid billionaires… are all around us.
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