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Tweet of the Week: Disney's Security is a Doozy

January 18, 2011 at 5:01 PM | by | Comments (3)

We love Tuesdays. Why, you ask? Because the day brings many travel tips and quips as "Travel Tuesday" on Twitter, and we're going to share our favorite with you. Got an avid travel twitterer we should follow? Let us know.

Have you been to Disney World in Florida lately? We know quite a few people who haven't been since they were kids or at least teenagers, and if they set foot back into the place now, they'd be shocked by what has changed and what hasn't. One of the more recognizable adjustments has been the adoption of theme park technology, such as San Francisco Chronicle's Travel Editor Spud Hilton {@spudhilton) encountered today:

Just fingerprinted going into Magic Kingdom. I got into Poland and Bahrain without that.

Ah yes, but did Poland and Bahrain surround with a ratio of kids-to-adults that ran extremely high on the kid end? And did Poland and Bahrain count on peace, happiness and family friendliness to maintain an equilibrium? Nope—so fingerprinting it is!

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Wrong

Seeing as Disney has had finger mapping as a way of identifying the user of theme park tickets for at least 5 years it should be fairly easy for you to fact check this post. They aren't finger print readers, they simply measure the distance between two of the users fingers. This unique distance is tied to the ticket to reduce counterfitting. Disney does not take fingerprints and check them against law enforcement databases. Its sad that a blog with the Conde Nast logo at the bottom of its pages can't even fact check a story, even one intended to be humorous.
factcheck on January 19, 2011 at 2:27 AM #Permalink

Two fingers?

Was just there a couple weeks ago. Animal Kingdom said "they'd given up" trying to used the fingerprinter. Epcot had them in use, but it was only one finger. The biometric readers have indeed been around since at least 2005, but I've never seen one that allows two fingers, unless you have tiny hands (children). They link a fingerprint to a ticket for reentry or reuse.
expeditionaire on January 19, 2011 at 6:50 AM #Permalink

whoa whoa

We didn't say they used the fingerprint data to check against law enforcement databases at all. Merely insinuated that Disney World is totally different atmosphere than entire countries, so a range of different security measures is to be expected. For any purpose.
JetSetCD on January 19, 2011 at 8:55 AM #Permalink

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