Attorney says facial recognition got her kicked out of a Rockettes show

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Kelly Conlon, an attorney from New Jersey, says she wasn't allowed to see a Rockettes show at Radio City Music Hall after she was identified by a facial recognition system, according to a report from NBC New York. Conlon told the outlet that guards approached her while she was in the building's lobby and said she wasn't allowed to be there because of her connection to a legal case against the company that owns the hall.

I believe they said that our recognition picked you up," she told NBC, saying that she was asked to identify herself and that they knew my name before I told them. They knew the firm I was associated with before I told them." She says she ended up waiting outside while her daughter watched the show with other members...

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