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Mickey Mouse Needs Your Fingerprints

LordM | 05 September, 2006 09:58

Yes. Mickey Mouse now needs your fingerprint everytime you enter his domain, Disneyland. For the longest time, the administration recorded onto the tickets of visitors their own fingerprint geometry and shape to avoid fraud and reselling of tickets.

By the end of September, the "happiest place on earth" will be requiring everyone who enters to input their fingerprint unto the system database. According to Kim Prunty, spokesperson for Walt Disney World, this procedure is basically a "technology upgrade" that "takes an image of your fingerprint,

identifies a series of points, measures the distance between those points, and turns it into a numerical value." Because of this process, lines will be shorter, and guests can now go inside the theme park faster.

They mentioned that since people often shared their 10-day pass to either their loved ones, or to other people by reselling their tickets, the method of fingerprinting would greatly prevent significant ticket fraud.

Despite all the criticisms from people, Disneyland assured that once the ticket is consumed, the system will automaticlly purge the data.

Additional details can found found on the newsinitiative.org website and can be found on this link.

Do tell me what you guys think.

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