Disney is currently facing a new lawsuit involving the scanning of visitors' faces at two of its theme park locations, Disneyland and California Adventure in California.
In April of this year, Disney implemented a facial scanning system at the entrance to both theme park locations, and it appears that it did not provide adequate notice to inform visitors, especially children, that their faces were being scanned at those locations, and what the scans were used for.
Because of this, Disney has been sued in a California court, with a class action lawsuit in which the prosecution wants Disney to pay compensation of $5 million (~RM20 million) to the visitors involved in this lawsuit.
Disney says that the facial scanning system is used to facilitate the verification of visitors entering for the first time and those entering the theme park area again to prevent fraud, but it is said that users were not informed that this information was stored by Disney.
According to the terms set by Disney, the data collected through facial scans is stored for 30 days to assist in cases that can help in confirming fraud cases and the like, but the scan data will be disposed of after that period.
However, the lawsuit also says that this statement may not be true because the same recording is used for those who buy tickets in advance and those who buy annual passes to visit the theme parks, which makes it impossible for the data to be deleted after the 30-day period.
