POLL: Disney World Theme Parks Now Require Children to have a Biometric Fingerprint Scan

[DisneyDaver]

The first negative is that a three-year-old's immune system isn't fully built up, and so while it's terrible to live in fear of disease and sickness and such, I don't know if it's best to have them place their finger on the same reader as thousands before them have.

I'm exposing my germaphobic ways ... but the first thing that came to my mind was that I would have to hand sanitize my daughters hands each time she entered the park. Other than that, I saw no negatives.

 

[Marco226]

OK guys here's the deal

The readers do not read the finger print but rather the shape of the finger and the underling blood vessels as it's actually not legal for disney to collect guest fingerprint records.(what I was told in training) (This is why the readers don't work if you push too hard like a lot of seniors do.

Oh wow, thanks for sharing that info. I never knew that until like 5 minutes ago when I read your post. My kids never mentioned that before, and they're usually the ones telling me about wdw tech and trivia stuff. I'm gonna quiz them and see if they know this. Heh heh...

 

[LongLiveTheKing]

Oh wow, thanks for sharing that info. I never knew that until like 5 minutes ago when I read your post. My kids never mentioned that before, and they're usually the ones telling me about wdw tech and trivia stuff. I'm gonna quiz them and see if they know this. Heh heh...

"Did you guys know that the finger scanners don't actually scan your fingerprint and actually look inside your flesh?"

"Uuuuuuhhhhh"

 

[bunnyman]

This is an absolute snore...what's the big deal!

 

[ryguy]

All a big joke anyway, this is just for appearances. How often does Disney refuse entry because the scan didn't match? I never really seen it. Maybe Rojo can shed some light on that.
Scanners are gross and spread germs, can you imagine what is on these things. Think of how many kids stick there fingers in their mouths and how poorly most people wash there hands. Feces why does there have to be feces

 

[Monty]

They say it isn't but how do you know? I know I didn't like when they started with the finger scanning thing. I don't need my finger prints or worse yet DNA in any data base. Why do you believe what they tell you? Your cell phone is monitored 24/7/365 by the government but of course they are just looking for basic info? No they aren't, much bigger then that but they aren't going to say they are. Will it effect you? Probably not but what happens if you are that guy?

 

[Prince-1]

I have heard from my "Natural Living" Facebook group it can cause schizophrenia with negative symptoms.

Unlike the positive symptoms that come with schizophrenia.

 

[Sans Souci]

Unlike the positive symptoms that come with schizophrenia.

There are positive and negative symptoms. Positive symptoms are things like hallucinations, while negative ones are things like flat affect.

 

[jakeman]

They say it isn't but how do you know? I know I didn't like when they started with the finger scanning thing. I don't need my finger prints or worse yet DNA in any data base. Why do you believe what they tell you? Your cell phone is monitored 24/7/365 by the government but of course they are just looking for basic info? No they aren't, much bigger then that but they aren't going to say they are. Will it effect you? Probably not but what happens if you are that guy?

Hypothetically, how does Disney get your DNA from the fingerprint scanner?

 

[xdan0920]

OS: Disney World starts scanning kids' fingers

Walt Disney World has begun requiring children from 3 to 9 years old to have their fingers scanned when they enter the theme parks, just like older kids and adults.

Disney said the new process will help block the use of stolen and shared tickets. Previously, kids' tickets would have been easy to transfer because they had no finger images attached to them.

Parents who feel uncomfortable with having their kids' fingers scanned can use their own instead.

Disney introduced scanners more than a decade ago that used "finger geometry" — pictures of several points on people's fingers.

Your poll is flawed. As per usual.

 

[xdan0920]

Hypothetically, how does Disney get your DNA from the fingerprint scanner?

It's actually an injection point. High speed nano needle. Extracts DNA whilst injecting you with tracking nano-bots.

 

[jakeman]

It's actually an injection point.

So my question should have been "Hypodermically, how does Disney get your DNA from the fingerprint scanner?"

 

[xdan0920]

For what it's worth, its re-GD-diculous that Disney is worried about this "fraud." Whatever though, in the grand scheme of things, I guess it's not a huge deal.

 

[DisneyGentlemanV2.0]

Who really cares.

Look at the bright side - they are training kids from their earliest days to give WDW the finger.

It's training for future members of this board.

 

[Minnie Mum]

I'm exposing my germaphobic ways ... but the first thing that came to my mind was that I would have to hand sanitize my daughters hands each time she entered the park. Other than that, I saw no negatives.

Scanners are gross and spread germs, can you imagine what is on these things. Think of how many kids stick there fingers in their mouths and how poorly most people wash there hands. Feces why does there have to be feces

Why are scanners any more germ laden than anything else you or your kid touches in the parks? Railings? Queue chains? Door handles? Ride bars? Tables and chairs? Interactive queue features? Do you whip out your sanitizer each and every time?

Science tells us the average human's immune system is strengthened by exposure to normally occurring microbes. You're not doing yourself any favors by trying to live in a germ free bubble. Just keep trying to teach your kid to quit putting his fingers in his mouth, and to stop licking the handrails.

 

[Buried20KLeague]

Why are scanners any more germ laden than anything else you or your kid touches in the parks? Railings? Queue chains? Door handles? Ride bars? Tables and chairs? Interactive queue features? Do you whip out your sanitizer each and every time?

Science tells us the average human's immune system is strengthened by exposure to normally occurring microbes. You're not doing yourself any favors by trying to live in a germ free bubble. Just keep trying to teach your kid to quit putting his fingers in his mouth, and to stop licking the handrails.

But they're so tasty.

 

[rob0519]

They say it isn't but how do you know? I know I didn't like when they started with the finger scanning thing. I don't need my finger prints or worse yet DNA in any data base. Why do you believe what they tell you? Your cell phone is monitored 24/7/365 by the government but of course they are just looking for basic info? No they aren't, much bigger then that but they aren't going to say they are. Will it effect you? Probably not but what happens if you are that guy?

How is your DNA going to wind up in a database from a finger scan on a piece of glass that thousands of people have put their fingers on before you?

 

[biggy H]

I'm exposing my germaphobic ways ... but the first thing that came to my mind was that I would have to hand sanitize my daughters hands each time she entered the park. Other than that, I saw no negatives.

And people wonder why childrens immune systems are not developed properly and end up needing antibiotics for illness that people never used to bother about.

 

[PhotoDave219]

There's a simple solution that everyone's overlooking and frankly Zika should fix this: No more children.

 

[Matt7187]

There's a simple solution that everyone's overlooking and frankly Zika should fix this: No more children.

I feel very horrible for laughing as hard as I did..

There are positive and negative symptoms. Positive symptoms are things like hallucinations, while negative ones are things like flat affect.

Pardon my ignorance, but how is a hallucination a positive effect?