Disney fingers tickets forgers

DISNEY LAND is fingerprinting visitors to make sure that tickets are not shared or forged and the system is not proving all that popular.

The Mickey Mouse outfit is making guests put their index and middle fingers into a device at the turnstile that assigns a code to link the image of their fingers with their name and ticket.

It is creating long queues as people seem to be a bit reluctant to put their fingers into a machine which looks like it will not return them intact.

A spokesMouse said that it is an attempt to find a more foolproof system to block the use of stolen and shared tickets.

In the old days the multiple use tickets had a fairly hazy photograph of the ticket owner. Unfortunately it was so bad that it was possible for me to get through the ticket stall using my girlfriend's ex-bloke's pass and he had masses of hair.

The new system, Ticket Tag, uses "finger geometry" rather than traditional fingerprints. A camera takes a picture of several points on each person's index and middle fingers and assigns a number value to the image, she said.

However, the move to biometric tickets is worrying privacy advocates because of the way the biometric data is stored. According to News Day the American Civil Liberties Union is worried that the massive fingerprint databases are not secure enough.

Tourists also wondered why Disney would need such a big database of fingerprints and what it would do with it.

Disney said that the company doesn't save the information after the ticket expires and if a crime were to occur inside a park, police can't use the images to match a fingerprint to a person because the numerical values,not fingerprints, are saved in Disney's system.

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