Tech: Report: Disneyland Now Uses Face Recognition on Visitors

Tech: Report: Disneyland Now Uses Face Recognition on Visitors

A gunman attempted to enter the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, DC, last weekend, while President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and other administration officials were in attendance. Media reports and Trump himself quickly identified the suspected shooter as 31-year-old engineer and computer scientist Cole Tomas Allen. The California resident was arrested at the scene on Saturday and appeared Monday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia to face three federal charges: attempting to assassinate the president, transportation of a firearm in interstate commerce, and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence. The authentication standards body known as the FIDO Alliance announced working groups this week along with Google and Mastercard to develop technical guardrails for validating and protecting transactions initiated by an AI agent. Meanwhile, given the proliferation and increasing sensitivity of some work using AI, OpenAI rolled out an “advanced” security risk mode for ChatGPT and Codex accounts facing heightened risk of attack. The Happiest Place on Earth just got a bit creepier. The Walt Disney Company announced this week that visitors to its Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure Park will have the option to “choose” to enter the park through a lane that’s equipped with face recognition technology. While the company says subjecting yourself to face recognition is “entirely optional,” it notes that “you may still have your image taken” if you enter the parks through lanes without face recognition systems. Disney’s face recognition, like many others, works by converting images of people’s faces into a numerical value, which can then be used to match faces in other images. The company says these numerical values will be deleted after 30 days, “except in cases where data must be maintained for legal or fraud-prevention purposes.” Face recognition systems are widely used across the United States and the worl

Source: Wired