Disney (and others) taking to biometric scanning
AJC.com reports.....
Why scan the hands that feed you?
If Mickey Mouse tried to visit Walt Disney World today, even if he purchased a full-price ticket, he'd almost certainly be refused entry. You see, in order to gain access into the Magic Kingdom, everyone has to submit to a high-tech, digitized laser scan of their finger tips; and Mickey, bless his heart, always wears gloves. He never takes them off — not to sleep, not to eat, not to bathe, and certainly not to go through a turnstile.
Turns out that the biometric "hand scans" that they are doing are an effort to reduce ticket forgeries and "make things better" for the almighty customer. Busch Gardens is doing something similar, so it can't be all bad, right? They all insist that it's a "scan of their entire hand, not just the fingertips".
My favorite part: "There's no pesky 'privacy issue,' because "it's not fingerprinting" said Busch's vice president of operations, Doug Stagner.
As the article points out, one of the problems is that corporations - and the government - have a bad track record when it comes to protecting sensitive data like this. As long as it's only a scan of the dimensions of the hand and not the actual prints, I guess it might work - for a while. I'm sure that the ACLU is already watching this one like a hawk though....
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