"They also have a presentation on this from Disney and it's implementations at the main link. Guess we will have to live with it..."
If enough people protested and refused to buy from merchants that used this (yes, even Disney) then they'd have to find another way.
I agree, but I simply do not see that happening. The technology has benefits, a lot of them in fact, but what will happen in my estimation is that the christian right will protest it (and hence they must be weakened, liberalized) but they will be margianlized - and all the time people who are complaining about the privacy factor (and not the religious one) will not get much press.
They already have a wealth of responses to the privacy arguments, except what I see as the biggest one - trusting your government. I don't trust them whether bush or clinton are in, but they are a big driving force behind this. And with all the new buzz about security - well biometrics being used as the only source of being able to do business would solve that for the most part.