Summer Christine Duffield of New York has filed a lawsuit against the Walt Disney Company and related entities regarding alleged privacy violations at Disney’s California theme parks. I’m not sure whether she’s basing it on California law or something else, because the only cited cause of action in the summary of the filing is 28 U.S.C. § 1332 oc Diversity-Other Contract, which basically says that federal courts can handle civil cases over $75,000. Duffield is asking for millions.
At the Disney parks, some entrance lanes use facial recognition. Others do not.
In Biometric Update’s summary, it sounds like an EMOJI is at issue.
“The confusion here is in an emoji or graphic that Disney has used to indicate lanes for which facial recognition will not be used. The graphic shows a face with a slash through it – like no smoking, but for biometric data collection. However, the distinction is minor enough to cause confusion on its own, and Disney has not helped its case by failing to put, on its privacy notice, a working emoji; as it stands, customers may be forgiven for not understanding the difference between the two lanes, which Disney suggests are labeled identically.”
So much for emojis being straightforward. They can be interpreted in many ways. In the picture with this post, Google Gemini thought that the Disney symbol meant something entirely different.
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