Hell I'm starting to get a little nervous now just to go to the bathroom at WDW.
Well, 1.) That Disney will sell data is pure speculation at this point. 2.) If people need to be told not to go somewhere if they require a DNA sample for entry, then that person probably deserves whatever happens.
Hell I'm starting to get a little nervous now just to go to the bathroom at WDW.
I dont know. I highly doubt that anyone would want to track your bathroom trips, despite the million and one "jokes" on this site about it. Who knows, maybe they'll send your frequency of visits to Charmin so they can mail you a coupon when you return home.Hell I'm starting to get a little nervous now just to go to the bathroom at WDW.
Back in March, Spirit said that Disney was looking at selling the MM+ data to get companies to sponsor attractions in a big way again.
Well, that may well be a rotten choice to make. But it's a choice that will have to be made if you ultimately want Disney to feel any negative impact from their decision. Most people are not willing to walk away from something. They feel that they are entitled to visit the resort on their terms. Not the way it works.
Why would it have to be over the next few years? What about over the next few decades? Assuming they made the system a little easier to keep "up to date", couldn't this improve operational efficiency from here on out? In fact, I'd guess that the more data they have, the longer they have to slice and dice the numbers, the better they'll be able to tweak their operations to cut overhead.
This has nothing to do with child abduction. Nor does WDW have anything to do with child abduction. That is a matter for law enforcement to handle.
As for lost children, RFID tracking solves the problem. However, RFID provides many other benefits including an increase in speed, accuracy and accounting. The crowd herding, grouping and moving capabilities are awesome! Moooo!
None of the examples I gave have any relationship to the WDW NGE. I cited them to demonstrate some of the more common tracking devices that are currently in use. Tracking things (people, cars, animals) is a very easy thing to do and real time tracking devices are inexpensive (of course the more you pay the more features you get). Frankly, I don't care what Disney does with the technology. It is not illegal to track or data mine people.
I suppose Disney could use the NGE for nefarious purposes but we'll just have to wait and see if they go that route. I see the technology as offering a lot of advantages for all guests.
Well, that's because you are obviously just a deflector sent here by CP.
My cat and dog are now equipped with tin foil hats to fight back against the data mining! Are you prepared?
.. by wdisney9000, on Flickr
. by wdisney9000, on Flickr
For the sake of discussion, let's say Disney came clean. And I don't mean the hand-waving "Terms and Conditions" clean, which covers just about anything imaginable without specifying a single thing. I mean really truthful with its paying customers. "Here's how we closely will track you, here's the information we will collect about you, here's how we intend to use it."
