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New at Disneyland: Your Face, Recognized at the Gate
Key takeaways
- For visitors to California's Disneyland amusement park, there's now a technological question posed to everyone before they can get through the gates: Do you want your face biometrically scanned?
- Disneyland previously tested facial scanning technology at its entrances to reduce ticket and pass fraud.
- Disney says the face scanning is optional, and there are also lines that take a photo of a customer's face, but do not scan it for face recognition.
For visitors to California's Disneyland amusement park, there's now a technological question posed to everyone before they can get through the gates: Do you want your face biometrically scanned?
Disneyland previously tested facial scanning technology at its entrances to reduce ticket and pass fraud. It has now officially launched the program, with some lines to enter Disneyland and California Adventure requiring a biometric photo comparison of their faces.
Disney says the face scanning is optional, and there are also lines that take a photo of a customer's face, but do not scan it for face recognition. Those lines, according to reports, are fewer in number than the lines that do facial recognition.
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