Biometric and Fingerprint Scans

[grampsinaz]

Hi All:

Just returned from a week at WDW. Can anyone explain the reason for the finger scans at the entrances to all the parks? Are they really trying to tie an individual to a ticket? There were six in our party and we held all the tickets together and passed them out randomly as our party went through the gates. We didn't have individual names on the tickets and the chance that a person used the same ticket every time would be small. We were never stopped or questioned on identity. They seemed to have lots of delays and problems getting the two-finger scanners to register properly and it all seemed like an unnecessary bottleneck. They must be serving some useful purpose or they wouldn't go to the time and expense, but I couldn't see any value.

Comments??

Visitor from Arizona

 

[Chape19714]

Most tickets now have names on them. They are indeed trying to put a person with thier ticket to prevent multiple uses or transfering of mulit-day and annual passes. If you arrived at a busy time at the front of the park, the biometric readers are often bypassed, so the line does not back up further.

WELCOME TO THE BOARDS!

 

[Pabgo]

Welcome to the boards, too!

 

[wdwjmp239]

Different Biometric Readers

We went to the Magic Kingdom on Saturday and noticed the readers were different than that of Epcot's. Are they moving over to a newer type of reader so people don't have to adjust their fingers in the older model reader?

 

[Monty]

My understanding is that if you check in as a group, all of your tickets will work for the biometric measurement of all of your group. This is done precisely because people don't keep their tickets separately. If, however, some of your group had no-expiry tickets from a previous trip and others had new tickets this trip, you might have had problems.

It is not a perfect system and a lot of guests just end up waved through. They are apparently improving the system, as is reflected in a prior post.

 

[Chape19714]

We went to the Magic Kingdom on Saturday and noticed the readers were different than that of Epcot's. Are they moving over to a newer type of reader so people don't have to adjust their fingers in the older model reader?

It's a test to see if the new readers that use 1 finger are quicer and easier for guests to understand. If it is considered a success, it will possibly be implimented at all 4 parks at all the turnstyles. If not, the 2 finger readers will remain.

 

[JPVonDrake]

First, welcome to the boards!

With the Magic Your Way Tickets, now your ticket is just that, yours! To ensure no one else can use your ticket in the event it is lost or stolen, we've introduced the Ticket Tag system. It's technology that uses unique measurements from your fingers to link your ticket to you!

The ticket tag system will recognize tickets from the same transaction as interchangeable. If a family purchases all tickets within the same transaction, the system will check the other tickets before failing the biometric check.

Do keep in mind that all Disney Ticket media is non-transferable, whoever uses day 1 on the ticket is the only person who can use any and all remaining days and entitlements.

New technology is currently being tested at the Magic Kingdom to switch from a two finger biometric scan to a one finger biometric scan. Once test are complete, the technology may be implemented across property.

 

[wdwjmp239]

It's a test to see if the new readers that use 1 finger are quicer and easier for guests to understand. If it is considered a success, it will possibly be implimented at all 4 parks at all the turnstyles. If not, the 2 finger readers will remain.

The new readers, to me, worked great!

1) Scan the ticket.
2) Put the finger on the reader
3) In you went.

 

[shaelyn]

I don't mind the scans -- anything that can link my ticket to ME and me alone is fine by me! -- but they DO cause a lot of slowdowns at the gates. The worst (for me) is at opening. A number of times on the last trip down, we picked the 'wrong' line, a group of people in front of us would either not know how to work the scanner or would have trouble getting it to recognize them, and we'd lose precious moments in the parks

A one finger scan SOUNDS like it would be much simpler (and less painful for the area between your index and middle fingers! They always yell at me to "put your fingers all the way in!" and i'm like, hi, there's FLESH THERE lol) we'll see how it goes