Disney scans your face at the gate of Disneyland and California Adventure. They have been doing this since April. They say they delete it within 30 days, which is a thing you say when you have no intention of doing it.
The class action wants $5 million, which at Disneyland prices is roughly 41,300 churros.
Blake Yagman, the lawyer, makes the reasonable point that maybe written consent should come before the biometric scan, not after. A bold stance. The kind of legal theory that gets you a settlement and a lifetime ban from the Tiki Room.
The suit notes Disney compares the new scan against the photo you submitted when you bought your annual pass. So the 30-day deletion policy is technically true in the way I am technically going to start jogging. Dr. Marlen Pressfield of the Coastal Bureau for Consumer Suspicion estimates 73.8% of guests assumed the camera at the turnstile was decorative.
I respect the operational efficiency. Get the cheekbones, get the credit card, get them on Pirates by 10:15. Then the kid cries because the algorithm flagged grandma as a known Universal Studios sympathizer.
Based on the original article "Disney faces a class action lawsuit over facial recognition tech".
