{"id":238477,"date":"2026-05-03T05:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/disneyland-rolls-out-facial-recognition-at-entrance-lanes-raising-privacy-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T06:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T10:15:12","slug":"disneyland-rolls-out-facial-recognition-at-entrance-lanes-raising-privacy-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/disneyland-rolls-out-facial-recognition-at-entrance-lanes-raising-privacy-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Disneyland rolls out facial recognition at entrance lanes, raising privacy concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveltomorrow.com\/disneyland-rolls-out-facial-recognition-at-entrance-lanes-raising-privacy-concerns\/\">Disneyland rolls out facial recognition at entrance lanes, raising privacy concerns<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveltomorrow.com\/disneyland-rolls-out-facial-recognition-at-entrance-lanes-raising-privacy-concerns\/\">https:\/\/traveltomorrow.com\/disneyland-rolls-out-facial-recognition-at-entrance-lanes-raising-privacy-concerns\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-03 05:53:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"traveltomorrow.com\">traveltomorrow.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Disneyland, California\u2019s first and original Disney adventure theme park, opened in 1955, cameras caused a scandal. A series of \u201cSpecial Sunday events\u201d were televised nationwide and anchored by Walt Disney\u2019s Hollywood friends. One of them was Bob Cummings, a married man whose wife and kids were introduced to 90 million viewers, before, just minutes\u2019 later, TV cameras caught him in Frontierland, kissing a dancer. It was a PR disaster for a family-oriented attraction.<\/p>\n<p>Hoping to avoid the same, the park has now announced that its entrance lanes are being fitted with facial recognition technology. In a statement that appears to acknowledge what a crowd-splitter the move might be, the Walt Disney Company website says: \u201cParticipation is optional. Entrance lanes that do not employ facial recognition technology are also available.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The privacy implications of camera use during events came into sharp focus in July 2025, when a US CEO was caught on camera allegedly cheating on his wife with a work colleague at a Coldplay gig. Footage of the incident went viral, and both quickly resigned from their roles at tech firm Astronomer amid intense scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>More recently still, the use of facial recognition cameras powered by AI-software licensed to law enforcement has provoked a fierce public debate. The Trump administration is reportedly looking to acquire the use of Meta-style smart glasses\u2014a device on which facial recognition is imminent\u2014for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.<\/p>\n<p>The security of information being held online has also been in the headlines with the official Europe-wide launch of the EU\u2019s new biometric Entry Exit System at borders, and the news that thousands of Eurail Interrail customers may have had their personal information doxxed by hackers.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s against this backdrop, and amid the increasing use of the tech at sports stadiums and other event venues, that Disney has cautiously alerted its parkgoers to \u201clanes equipped&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveltomorrow.com\/disneyland-rolls-out-facial-recognition-at-entrance-lanes-raising-privacy-concerns\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disneyland rolls out facial recognition at entrance lanes, raising privacy concerns https:\/\/traveltomorrow.com\/disneyland-rolls-out-facial-recognition-at-entrance-lanes-raising-privacy-concerns\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-03&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/traveltomorrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/steven-beyer-r9dWA30cAsM-unsplash.jpg#175944","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238479,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238477\/revisions\/238479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}