Finger Scanning At Disney Parks Causes Concern

[cyberpj]

NOTE: The linked page also contains a survey/poll...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The addition of finger scanning technology at the entrances of Walt Disney World theme parks for all visitors has caused concern among privacy advocates, according to a Local 6 News report.

I think it's a step in the wrong direction," Civil Liberties Union spokesman George Crossley said. "I think it is a step toward collection personal information on people regardless of what Disney says.

Tourists visiting Disney theme parks in Central Florida must now provide their index and middle fingers to be scanned before entering the front gates.

The scans were formerly for season pass holders but now everyone must provide their fingers, Local 6 News reported. They have reportedly been phased in for all ticket holders during the past six months, according to a report.


http://www.local6.com/news/4724689/detail.html

[CanuckAmok]

1. Oh, sure... and yet Mickey is allowed to wear thick white gloves....

And Donald can wander around all day without any pants.

[shance]

17. LOL!!****And you know, Pluto is allowed to go everywhere without a leash

It's blatant bias pure and simple.

All jokes aside, this is data gathering and its most assuredly UNCOOL

and again, like so many other things, is considered illegal in a healthy, normal America.

[asjr]

2. Entrants should just give them the middle finger.

[AirForceof1]

3. You are already being tracked

with the credit card you used to buy the $200 worth of tickets to get your family of 4 in the gate, big freaking deal so they want a finger scan what are you afraid of that your gonna wake up one night and see a giant mouse standing over your bed.

[GoneOffShore]

6. I see giant animals

everynight.
But that's just cause of the chemicals.
Don't need no freaking mouse.

[Straight Shooter]

7. Not everyone uses credit cards.

I'm more concerned about my personal data being compromised and/or manipulated.

The question is, what is Disney so afraid of?

[XOKCowboy]

13. Actually....

Disney knows when you arrive at the airport in Orlando, the names, ages and sexes of all in your party, where you go in the park, where they THINK you might want to go, everything you do, spend, eat, even what time you turn off the lights and go to bed. I once was at a seminar where their technology was discussed and it was scary.

[shance]

18. This is a WHOLE new level of invasive/illegal data gathering.

This takes it yet to one more extreme.

If Americans don't wake up, it will be too late very soon.

[cyberpj]

20. What I'm afraid of is the never-ending and quiet erosion of our

civil liberties and right to privacy that has been happening since BushCo started using 9/11 to control this country with fear.

[GoneOffShore]

4. Yet another reason why

I won't be going anywhere near Walt Disney World. It ranks up there for me with Las Vegas and any artificially 'quaint' or 'realistic' theme park. If I go to an amusement park I want roller coasters, ferris wheels, bumper cars and cute girls in shorts and halter tops. Games where I know the fix is in and lots of fried foods and a place where I can get beer.
No 'family friendly' illusions.
My list of places that I never want to visit:
Anything with Disney in the name
Las Vegas
Branson Missouri
Florida
Anywhere with really BIG bugs.

[Ms. Clio]

5. Next they will be injecting RFID tags to track all movements at all times

Guess I won't ever be going to Disney World, after all. I hope lots of other people decide to take their entertainment dollars elsewhere, too.

[acmejack]

8. Your cell phone already does it for them!

If it is 911 enabled, which all late model phones are.

[Ms. Clio]

10. Crikey I hadn't realized that

Although I don't use mine very much and often forget to bring it with me.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

21. You can put a block on the tracking. I have. Check your phone manuals. n/t

[GoneOffShore]

9. Take a look at NYT Sunday Magazine

today and the article about EZPass. The last line is the scariest:
"The information collected about consumers is the most sophisticated and confusing taggant* of all. It is a marvelous tool, a real timesaver and a kind of electronic bracelet that turns the entire world into a place where we are living under house arrest.'

*Taggant - n.
Any of various substances, such as microscopic pieces of multilayered colored plastic, added to a product to indicate its source of manufacture: added taggants to explosives to deter terrorism.


Source: http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/t/t0013950.html

[Ms. Clio]

12. Would you happen to have a link handy for that article?

I remember reading about a nursery school that used RFID tags to track the kids on the grounds, too,until the parents complained.

[cyberpj]

14. Or putting them under the skin at birth. nt.

[Rex]

11. Disney wants to control your minds!!!!

Micky will be our new lord and savior! :crazy:

[cyberpj]

15. Really, I think they're just doing it to get us used to it in a "friendly"

place first - before it's happening to us everywhere all the time.

[SoCalDem]

16. and to track "outstanding warrants".. Criminals have families too

and they like to visit Disney(land-world)..How about a fun day at the park, followed by a cadre of sheriffs waiting at the exits :)

[shance]

19. B.I.N.G.O.

Casually and harmlessly wielding a stilletto against our rights and our privacy.