Mickey Mouse is watching you: Disneyland deploys facial recognition
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trunkiedozer
tintor
Next: Netflix deploys facial recognition, to prevent account sharing fraud.
monksy
It's super creepy how this garbage gets rolled out. The value proposition of going to these parks is "have fun and enjoy this." But if you bought a pass and then you found out you'd have to go through this.. what do you do? The annoyed and condescending employee will grief you into complying.
There are many ways to solve this problem, but this approach is the most friendly to the owners.
This is a hard no for me to consider giving that mouse money.
ktallett
Ugh! How much fraud occurs at Disneyland? I would be shocked if there isn't a third reason they are not making clear. We desperately need to put up a fight early on with this technology as it's unreliable and just not needed, and it will only cause negatives long term. For anyone who says but it won't be an issue for many; well that's the exact status quo we have now, so it's really only to get worse overall.
IncreasePosts
I'm positive there are thousands of people banned from Disney parks for good reason - how else can Disney enforce those bans at their scale (150 million visitors per year)?
monksy
I'm finding it hard to be empathetic towards an ultra large business with that many customers trying to enforce bans. Also, I find it difficult to support the bans. (Given the number of customers they have, they're probably overly lenient on banning)
qwerpy
Annual pass sharing is widespread in the immigrant community my family is a part of. I’ve half jokingly advised them to pull the race card if they ever get caught. “How dare you imply we all look the same?”
dhosek
I would guess that it’s very much a pass-sharing thing—I’ve noticed that the level of security around passes has increased a great deal over the past 30ish years. In 2000, a Disneyworld Pass had no expiration date and was simply labeled by gender. In 2023, the same pass was date limited and had a photograph of the passholder digitally associated with it.
malfist
Ah yes, that famous "immigrant community" that always commits fraud, plays the race card, all of them. One big defrauding, racist bloc.
doublerabbit
It's a scape goat. I am sure fraud does happen at the park but this now more "won't someone think of the children" but replace children with fraud. Ironic when Disney itself is fraudulent.
It's more than likely they're collecting civilian data for other means and/or for money.
cybercatgurrl
i’m sure they’re gonna be selling the data of exactly which shops and rides you went to and for how long
There’s a big wall around the park too.