Finger scanning at the Magic Kingdom
January 28, 2005 by Mike Wendland
What’s up with this? I’m down in Orlando with the grandkids and made a quick visit to Disney World yesterday. At the admission turnstyles, you can’t get in unless you insert two fingers in a scanning machine.
“We have to be finger-printed to get in?” I asked the ever-smiling keeper-of-the-mouse guard that takes tickets.
“That doesn’t take your fingerprint, sir,” she cheerfully explained.”It scans your finger bones.”
Like I should be excited about it.
“So no one else can use your ticket,” she explained when I asked why.
Uh huh. I snapped the phone cam picture you see here.
Does the ACLU know about this?
This is not new… they have been using this biometric scanning for nearly 10 years.
http://allearsnet.com/pl/fingerscan.htm
How exactly is a bone density scanner supposed to stop others from stealing your ticket?
It’s not a bone density scan; an array of lasers measures your fingers, the distances between them when you make a “V” (like a peace symbol), etc. and then stores that information on the mag stripe on the ticket. The premise is that nobody else will have the same finger configuration measurements. Disney has been doing this for annual passholders for a long time. Only this year did they start using it for ALL tickets. It’s not a fingerprint scan.
ive seen those for sale at http://www.willowtechnology.com - a guy showed me that it can be hooked up to show your photograph - scary stuff