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Her movements were tracked, over and over, and the reporting says she was followed through the venue down to the second over a two-year period. Former staffers described her as a target, and one said she posed no threat. The tracking included a January 10, 2022 game. Richards was later banned from the Garden, and a former security officer, Donnie Ingrasselino, alleges in a lawsuit that the security chief fabricated a stalking allegation to justify it. The surveillance became public through a 2025 lawsuit and WIRED's own reporting. MSG Entertainment declined to specifically comment on the reporting.","tags":[],"date_detected":null,"near_miss":null,"root_cause":null,"root_cause_detail":null,"failure_class_detail":null,"responsible_party":null,"adversarial_actor":null,"input_provenance":null,"time_to_contain":null,"operations_paused":null,"remediation":null,"precursor_events":null,"primary_risk":"RK15"},"impact":{"direct_loss_usd":null,"remediation_hours":null,"records_exposed":null,"third_parties_affected_count":null,"severity":"moderate","severity_because":"Moderate test: data of others touched with a bounded scope stated, namely tracking of one person over a two-year period.","harm_class":[],"affected_description":null,"protected_class_involved":null,"data_categories_exposed":[],"loss_range_usd":null,"reversibility":null,"downstream_exposure_count":null},"evidence":{"sources":[{"url":"https://www.wired.com/story/madison-square-garden-jim-dolan-surveillance-machine/","publisher":"WIRED","date":"2026-04-17","type":"press","title":"The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine - WIRED","archived_url":null,"attachment":"first_report","independence":"independent"},{"url":"https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/msg-facial-recognition-cameras","publisher":"Futurism","date":"2026-04-19","type":"press","title":"Madison Square Garden Reportedly Used Facial Recognition to Stalk Trans Woman For Two Years - Futurism","archived_url":null,"independence":"derivative"}],"per_field_confidence":{"event.incident_class":"D","impact.severity":"D","impact.severity_because":"D","event.primary_risk":"D","event.summary":"C","system.autonomy_level":"D","system.deployment_context":"D","event.trigger":"D","event.detection_method":"D","context.country":"D","system.developer":"D","event.date_disclosed":"D","context.denominator_available":"D"},"field_citations":{"event.incident_class":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Her movements were tracked, over and over."}],"impact.severity":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"We discovered that Dolan’s security teams obsessively tracked Nina Richards, a trans woman, over a two-year period, monitoring her movements through the venue down to the second."}],"impact.severity_because":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"We discovered that Dolan’s security teams obsessively tracked Nina Richards, a trans woman, over a two-year period, monitoring her movements through the venue down to the second."}],"event.summary":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Her movements were tracked, over and over."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"We discovered that Dolan’s security teams obsessively tracked Nina Richards, a trans woman, over a two-year period, monitoring her movements through the venue down to the second."},{"source_index":1,"quote":"At Eversole’s request, MSG security lackeys routinely used the facility’s cornucopia of facial recognition cameras to follow Richards."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"\"She posed no threat,\" added a second former employee."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"On January 10, 2022, the Knicks played the San Antonio Spurs at the Garden."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"A 2025 lawsuit by a former member of the MSG security team lifted the veil, just a bit."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"MSG Entertainment declined to specifically comment on WIRED's reporting about Dolan and the activities of his security teams."}]},"notes_on_gaps":"The sources describe facial-recognition surveillance of a person by venue security, not an autonomous AI agent, so no agent fields or failure classes were set. No single occurrence date is stated; the timeline gives the dated events the sources report. The disclosure date was not recorded because no sentence in the sources states it. The sources state no control that held, failed, was bypassed, or was missing in this incident, so none is listed. No remediation is reported; MSG declined to specifically comment. Most allegations come from a lawsuit and from unnamed former staff and are unproven; MSG's lawyers dispute them in court filings. Judgements made: incident_class 'other' because the harm is misuse of surveillance rather than data leakage; responsible_party 'deployer' based on the report that the venue's own security team ran the system; detection_method 'third_party' for the press investigation; severity 'moderate' because the scope is one person over a stated two-year period, and not 'major' because no count of affected parties is stated. The eConnect developer and the vendor link were not recorded as fields because the sources do not clearly state the developer of the system used at the Garden. [case created by the backfill: read by claude-haiku-5-5, backfill-2026-11-01.2, 2026-11-01; not yet reviewed] [2026-11-01: evidence level set: Preliminary (1 report: WIRED · subject to change)]"},"context":{"industry":null,"org_size_band":null,"country":"unknown","denominator_available":false,"denominator":null,"related_incident_ids":[],"systemic_exposure":null,"shared_model_id":null,"upstream_incident_id":null,"incident_evidence":null,"regulatory":null,"coverage":null}}