{"id":321598,"date":"2026-08-14T21:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T21:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321598\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T21:00:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T21:00:48","slug":"brooklyn-lawmakers-join-privacy-advocates-in-push-to-ban-the-scan-at-msg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321598\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn lawmakers join privacy advocates in push to \u2018Ban the Scan\u2019 at MSG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A coalition of privacy advocates, local lawmakers and artists gathered outside Moynihan Train Hall, across from Madison Square Garden, on Aug. 14 to renew calls to end the use of biometric surveillance in places of public accommodation such as MSG. The group also urged the City Council to pass Council Member Shahana Hanif\u2019s (D-Brooklyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/legistar.council.nyc.gov\/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7861954&amp;GUID=1D5898C5-53CA-49DA-BA41-84EF0DD03FC3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ban the Scan, Int. 213<\/a>, which would prohibit businesses open to the public from collecting or using customers\u2019 biometric information for surveillance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; A coalition of privacy advocates, local lawmakers and artists gathered outside Moynihan Train Hall, across from Madison&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[15888,121148,121149,98,100,99,121150,121151,222,9,24,12,370,63,121152,5328,63601,121153,905],"class_list":["post-321598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-arts-entertainment","tag-ban-the-scan","tag-biometric-surveillance","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-fight-for-the-future","tag-intro-213","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newsletter","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-dsa-tech-action","tag-shahana-hanif","tag-surveillance-technology-oversight-project-s-t-o-p","tag-the-jim-owles-liberal-democratic-club","tag-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}