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Old 27-03-2008, 14:42   #1815
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Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
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Again this is quite interesting as Disney here in the US, not sure about in Paris / ROW use fingerprint technology to manage the risk that multiday passes, season passes and Florida resident discounts (which are pretty sweet) are not used by anyone but the first user of the card. When you pick the card up or go through the gates the first time a RH Index print is scanned and you then need to verify that on subsequent visits.

I consent to that because well instead of $75 a day to visit the parcs the price reduces to $40 a day (part of that what you get in return for giving up private information) but interesting just the same.
There is a very sinister side to that as well though. Say for example a child was abducted from the park; the police/FBI would be able to force Disney to give them access to their biometrics. If they can be matched to fingerprints found at the "scene" you are likely to find you are interrogated even if you had nothing to do with it, simply because at some point in the past (maybe not even the same day) you put your hand on a railing or something.

Once the FBI have those biometrics, they are not going to give them up easily.

In the UK it is even more sinister because you will then be "obliged" to give dna when you get questioned, which will then get added automatically to the national DNA register even if you are not charged and it is an absolute nightmare trying to get those dna records expunged.

I am 100% against biometric databases (and DNA database) because of the serious implications they have with regards civil liberties and human rights. People are often wrongly accused of a crime they did not commit, in the case of a child abduction the consequences of such an erroneous accusation could be catastrophic such as suicide or lynch mobbing (resulting in murder or severe physical harm), family breakdowns and divorce, loss of job, damage to your reputation etc.

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