Thu Dec 22, 2022 – 6:35 pm EST
NEW YORK (LifeSiteNews) — An attorney was kicked out of Radio City Music Hall last month when facial recognition technology identified her employer as among several banned from the venue owner’s holdings, eliciting privacy concerns.
Kelly Conlon had already had her ticket scanned and had cleared a metal detector when she was stopped inside the New York City hall, where she was chaperoning her 9-year-old daughter’s Girl Scout troop trip to see the Radio City Christmas Spectacular.
“They said my firm was on the attorney exclusion list and escorted me out,” Conlon told the New York Post, which reported that she was then “forced to spend 90 minutes wandering around outside in the rain” as her daughter watched the show with her troop.
Conlon told NBC 4 News that she remembers hearing “woman with long dark hair and a gray scarf” over a loudspeaker about the time she walked through the metal detector.
Shortly afterward, security staff stopped Conlon to ask her to verify her name and show her identification before escorting her out.
Conlon works for the New Jersey law firm Davis, Saperstein and Salomon, which is
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