[C19fan]

The NSA is going to be jealous of all the information Disney can grab from a visitor to one of its parks.

[Menehune56]

Actually, the NSA is probably just using Disney as a front for gathering the information, much of it voluntarily provided their guests.

[MeshugeMikey]

The people running the NSA Magic Kingdom wont want to be eclipsed by the disney version...

[Resolute Conservative]

Disney parks have been a fools’ errand since the 80’s why anyone still goes is beyond me?

[Blood of Tyrants]

Used one last fall. Worked great.

[kingu]

Correction, nearly two billion, and more than half of the profits from the Anaheim resorts, curtailing or cancelling expansion and ride rebuilds there, and pushing back the Cars Land expansion for Disneyworld.

As for NSA being jealous of what data Disney can collect - they'd just be happy if the bands worked as well as the ‘Keys to the Kingdom’, RFID equipped cards that they've had for years now. Except they had to replace most of their readers because while customers have no problem holding a card up to a door for a moment, they do object to more than waiving a wrist towards the same door.

Heck, if the NSA wants to come down and fix Disney World's system, they'd be very happy.

See, while you or I would think that such a system should be able to track a visitor on the resort property (very handy for finding a lost child,) no such features or abilities are incorporated into the system. I know a few of the designers of the system and they were shocked that this was the first thing I expected of the system. ‘It never came up in focus group conversations..’ (held in Seattle, mostly by tech savvy nerds talking to not so tech savvy young adults.)

[wideawake]

What information do they collect, exactly?

Probably less than Amazon does.

According to what I've seen they track when you go in and out of the park, when you go in and out of the hotel, and which Disney restaurants you dine at.

Clearly it's a commercial thing so they can pitch you deals on hotels, travel packages, meal packages, etc.

Before this they had a meal plan card for you, a hotel swipe card for you, and a ticket that was read by an electronic reader.

Probably the biggest piece of new information they're getting is what time you leave the park - which they had probably already been calculating from the time your card swiped in your hotel room door.

[moovova]

All for just $99 a wack...

[John S Mosby]

Disney Beta testing the NWO police state— bracelets for all
the “happy” populace. North Korea sent a research team to Mickey for application in the worker’s paradise.

[TNoldman]

Walt Disney was an evil and was an early supporter of the communist “agenda 21 concept with EPCOT (Experimental Preliminary Community Of Tomorrow).

[GailA]

Disney channel new show Taylor has 2 MOMS, do you want your 5-9 yr old watching this stuff?

[Jeff Chandler]

“Behave, you naughty thing,” a Wilderness Lodge reservations clerk muttered"

[longtermmemmory]

who said this was not one of Disney’s government contracts?

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Was there a couple months ago. The technology worked great, we had no problems with it. We could leave our billfolds in the room safe and use the bands for everything. They got my CC # (which they would have gotten anyway) and could track where I went and what I spent - but so what?