Welcome to Patron Scam, a Brazen investigative series on the story of Adam Abdalla, a New York businessman who was mysteriously denied entry to a club in Seattle after his ID was scanned and mysteriously “flagged.”

In this series, we go down the rabbit hole with Adam and try to answer: How did his information get there? Who controls it? And what laws, if any, protect us from being tracked, shared, and tagged by AI systems we never agreed to?