Has Disney changed the way you are admitted to the parks?

[Sweedee]

We were there is Sept, 06. They were still doing the fingergrip/measuring thing when you slid your card through. Twice in the past week, I have now heard you are entering by a fingerprint. Did it change? or are these people confused? TIA

 

[themudd4]

The way I understood it in the past and I am assuming it is still going on...But it scans the bones in your finger, not the fingerprint. Alot of people think that it is their finger print...up until reading it on the boards so did I.

 

[littleelvis]

We were there 2 weeks ago and it is just your finger print now. It does go a lot faster than the two fingers last year

 

[Phedre]

Everything I've read from Disney says that they aren't taking your fingerprint even with the 1 finger method. They are still measuring bones or something. I don't know what they actually do and it's all okay by me as long as they let me in!!

 

[orangekid13]

how do they measure bones without telling exposing you to radiation? there has to be signs if they are so they aren't...

anyone have a link to something with more info?

(sorry for the off topic post)

 

[MisunderstoodLilo]

It's a one finger biometric scan now. It was two fingers until recently.

It's not an x-ray, so there is no radiation, but I'm not sure how it works exactly. Guess it's just that ol' Disney magic!

 

[ransom]

As I understand it, the system looks at your fingerprint, picks some points out from among the print's ridges, and does a mathematical computation of the placement of those points. That's what is stored, rather than your actual fingerprint.

Here's an article on how fingerprint scanners work: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/fingerprint-scanner.htm

 

[orangekid13]

@ ransom:
but what is being said is that it doesn't care about your prints at all, it doesn't check anything to do with your skin...

 

[pashari]

.....does it bother you that disney now has a record of your fingerprint? and who knows what they can do with it?

My DH is, normally, not that weird, but he insists on shredding everything that comes with our address on it (even junk mail) which I think is silly. Anyone can go in the internet and punch in our name to find our address. I don't think anyone's going to go thru our garbage just to find our address.

The other thing he wouldn't do is fingerprint our DD at a recent church carnival. The police had a booth that was making ID tags and such promoting the whole missing child thing in the event that DD every goes missing. DH wouldn't let me get it done for DD as they used electronic scanners to print the ID's and, thus, would retain an electronic copy of DD fingerprint. He said the government didn't need to have a record of her fingerprint that could, possibly, be missused at some point. His whole too much Big Brother stuff. He said any information would become outdated quickly (i.e. photo/address, etc).

I had some developmental questions on motor skills about our newest DD and videotaped a small segment of her playing with some of those plastic rings. I wanted to e-mail it to two friends of ours who are doctors but live out of the area. When I tried to attach the file, it was too large so ended up posting the short video link on youtube and e-mailing the youtube link to our friends. He was quite pissed that our DD is now out there for the world to see (like it's going to become such a popular hit, a 4 month old playing with plastic rings - everyone is just going to rush to see that one!!!)

Anyway, I've not told him about the whole "scanning your thumb print" to get into the park and just hope it won't be an issue for him. Can someone please give me some more info on how/why/where they do this? So you don't have a ticket but get a thumb scan instead? What is the purpose of getting your thumb scanned? Is it required for entry into any park? What about at the resorts?

hugs -

lisa

 

[themudd4]

It wasn't a thumb scan in June 2006...but your "pointer" and "middle" finger. you put your ticket in the slot, then your fingers in the finger placements, then it allows the turnstile to let you in. It is basically to make sure that it is you using your ticket and not Joe Blow from the neighborhood.

 

[ransom]

@ ransom:
but what is being said is that it doesn't care about your prints at all, it doesn't check anything to do with your skin...

There's a lot of confusion about the system, because they've upgraded it recently. It used to be a two-finger scan, but now it's just a one-finger scan. So when these discussions come up, you get a lot of people who haven't been to WDW recently and who talk about the only system they know - which is no longer there. Thus, the confusion.

Since late 2006, they've been using the one-finger scan that is based on fingerprints. It was in the newspapers at the time, and Disney said they're not storing fingerprints, just data about fingerprints. And they said they don't store that permanently (I don't recall how long after your ticket expires that they said they purge your data from the system).

Hope this helps!

 

[thebecka]

I was just in WDW 2 weeks ago and they are using the 1 finger scan. They do not have your name or personal information so big brother isn't watching... what they are doing is confirming that the same person uses the same ticket each time they enter the park.

 

[themudd4]

I was just in WDW 2 weeks ago and they are using the 1 finger scan. They do not have your name or personal information so big brother isn't watching... what they are doing is confirming that the same person uses the same ticket each time they enter the park.

Not to add to the "Big Brother" scare, (even though I LOVE that show) but actucally they do have have your personal info if you are a resort guest. Think about it a sec...they know your name, address, phone number, spouce's name, children's name's, and in some cases may have your credit card information, all of that info is some how connected to your "key to the world", and if they are scanning your finger print now... .

Oh well I say let Disney take over the world...