BREAKING: Madison Square Garden was keeping tabs on facial recognition activists, including our director Evan Greer

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For immediate release:<br>June 22, 2026

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Multiple media outlets are reporting that hackers have published a trove of data stolen from Madison Square Garden, one of the only large venues in the United States known to be using facial recognition surveillance on customers. The folks at 404 Media, who have been reporting on the breach, flagged for Fight for the Future that the hack includes what appears to be dossiers that Madison Square Garden’s owners were keeping on activists who criticized the company’s use of facial recognition.

One such file the company was keeping on activists focuses on Fight for the Future’s director, Evan Greer. The dossier, which misgenders Greer, a trans woman, includes background information as well as screenshots and links to social media posts, news articles where Greer is quoted, and op-eds.

FFTF Director Evan Greer (she/her) is available for interviews if you are covering this topic. She issued the following statement:

"The fact that MSG is creating dossiers on activists who say things they don’t like shows exactly why private companies should not be allowed to use dangerous surveillance technologies like facial recognition. Large companies can and will use surveillance tech to punish critics, exploit workers, and consolidate power, with no regard for the basic rights they trample in the process.

It’s funny that MSG’s owners are so concerned about me. Maybe they should be more worried about the fact that actual rockstars like Rage Against the Machine and Bikini Kill have pledged to boycott venues that use facial recognition surveillance on fans. The fact that we’re learning about this secretive profiling of activists thanks to a data leak is also ironic. Clearly MSG is incapable of safeguarding the data they collect and store, and this includes the massive trove of biometric data their face scanning system collects on every single person who enters the venue. Clearly James Dolan and MSG do not care about people’s privacy, rights, or safety. But presumably they care about their bottom line. If they’re smart, they’ll ditch the use of untrustworthy, racist, discriminatory and ineffective facial recognition tech before they catch a lawsuit or data breach they can’t afford. They can thank me later when they update my oppo report.

Oh, and given their recent treatment of a trans woman trying to use the bathroom in their venue, I’m also not surprised they misgendered me. "

See the documents uncovered by 404 media here:

Fight for the Future has led some of the most prominent campaigns to ban the use of facial recognition including a campaign with prominent artists and musicians that got more than 40 of the worlds largest music festivals to commit to not using biometric surveillance at their events. To arrange an interview, contact press@fightforthefuture.org

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