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Facial recognition software leads to mom being kicked out of Radio City Music Hall over her employer

A mom chaperoning Girl Scouts to see a Christmas event at Radio Music Hall last month was kicked out after facial recognition software identified her as an employee of a New Jersey law firm battling the venue’s owner.

Kelly Conlon was refused entry despite having a ticket to the Rockettes Christmas Spectacular, and she was picked up by the software less than a minute after entering the venue.

“It was pretty simultaneous, I think, to me, going through the metal detector, that I heard over an intercom or loudspeaker. I heard them say ‘woman with long dark hair and a grey scarf,’” Ms.