[Infowarrior] - Walt Disney World: The Government's Tomorrowland?

[Richard Forno]

Walt Disney World: The Government's Tomorrowland?

By Karen Harmel, Laura Spadanuta, August 14, 2006

Walt Disney World, which bills itself as one of the happiest and most
magical places anywhere, also may be one of the most closely watched and
secure.

Walt Disney World, which bills itself as one of the happiest and most
magical places anywhere, also may be one of the most closely watched and
secure. And control over park entrances is getting even tighter: the
nation's most popular tourist attraction now is beginning to scan visitor
fingerprint information.

For years, Disney has recorded onto tickets the geometry and shape of
visitors¹ fingers to prevent ticket fraud or resale, as an alternative to
time-consuming photo identification checks.

By the end of September, all of the geometry readers at Disney¹s four
Orlando theme parks, which attract tens of millions of visitors each year,
will be replaced with machines that scan fingerprint information, according
to industry experts familiar with the technology.

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