Her movements were tracked, over and over. When she sat down. When she ordered a drink. When she went to the bathroom. Nina Richards went to New York Knicks games quite a bit, and the security forces at Madison Square Garden used the arena's network of cameras to follow her. Owner James Dolan has watch lists of basketball fans who dared criticize his management. He keeps a close eye on his other venues too, including Radio City Music Hall and The Sphere in Las Vegas. Last March, Dolan’s security team blocked a graphic designer from seeing a concert; the designer, years earlier, had printed and sold a half-dozen T-shirts reading "Ban Dolan." But the true extent of Dolan's panopticon has only been caught in glimpses. A 2025 lawsuit by a former member of the MSG security team lifted the veil, just a bit. 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. (WIRED is using a pseudonym in this article out of respect for her privacy.) Dolan's biometric surveillance is so extensive that a New York City police officer’s photo was added to a face-recognition database, and a child triggered an alert at one of Dolan’s properties. According to a lawsuit and our sources, Dolan’s head of corporate security takes such an expansive view of his mission that his employees will functionally cosplay as cops—patrolling the neighborhood, snooping on protesters if they happen to be in the area. You don't have to enter a Dolan venue to be under his watch