Disney has announced plans to roll out optional facial recognition software in their world-famous California theme park.
To go into a park lol. Madness.
I hope there is a hidden mickey in the facial recognition
Not to surprising as Universal already does this and the rush to get ahead of lines in these parks provides a massive incentive to just agree to these convenience features. To Universals credit last time I went, I had no issues being able to opt out of the facial recognition. Hopefully Disney makes it an easy process as well.
So, there is going to be a long, slow line for people who are privacy aware.
Yeah let’s save the faces of children! What could go wrong, right?
What is the point of getting the long line if you cross the entrance and thers is camera everywhere inside?
I don’t think anyone should realistically expect privacy in a theme park. And that’s ok. It’s a confined space with lots of people and the park operator needs to know the flow of humans to keep things running smoothly.
It is also completely voluntary to go to Disney Land. And it’s private property. Disney is at liberty to operate their parks as they see fit.
As consumers we can choose whether or not to patronize the park based on their policies. It’s good to know and publicize that they are using this technology so we can all make informed decisions on whether or not Disney tickets are something we want to buy.
I think it’s perfectly reasonable not to want to be filmed and tracked everywhere on your family vacation. Just because it’s technically legal doesn’t make it a good thing.
And a lot of people don’t realize it’s happening, so they aren’t really consenting to it. Plus there’s not really an equivalent experience, if you want to go to Disneyland you have to deal with the facial recognition.
I certainly understand your viewpoint on this and emotionally agree. However, the modern Disney experience requires Disney to operate its parks as a corporate surveillance state.
One serious safety/crime issue could destroy the brand and the very unique experience you enjoy at Disneyland. They already have security checkpoint/screening at entry points and cameras everywhere. Adding facial recognition is just another logical layer of the surveillance they have in place.
Again this is a private company operating how they see fit on their private property. I don’t really blame Disney given the huge number of people visiting their parks everyday.
Sorry if this sounds rude, but are you living on planet earth? It’s obvious, that all the opt-out stuff is just to calm your nerves. Of course you can’t really opt out of facial recognition or most of the other privacy invasive stuff, especially in the US.
There was also an investigation done for the “reject cookies/reject tracking”-stuff that you get often, when you open a website.
The investigation found, that most websites don’t care of you click on “reject cookies/reject tracking”, they still gonna track you. It’s just a scam for the sheep.
If the technology/tracking is used, most times it will be used to the fullest, despite what fairy tales they tell you.
It seems like if you were actually sorry about being rude you would of just attempted to not be rude.
I literally didn’t have to do the facial recognition to go into the park. The comparison your making to cookie tracking is apples to oranges.
If you want to assume there is other facial recognition going on that I am not given a choice on that’s fine but whats even the point of discussing it, that is unavoidable. If you have ever walked in a public populated area that’s probably going on.
Is it still better that Universal provides some choice, when they could just force everyone who enters the park to use it to get in? Yes.
Going into these corporate theme parks have always been one giant advertisement. So color me not shocked at the slightest. These weren’t worth shit before but I at least let people had their fun. Now I am failing to see the benefit of going to these places at all