100 signatures reached
To: Thomas Mazloum, Chairman, Disney Experiences
Disney: Remove facial recognition technology from your parks!
Disney amusement parks have begun using facial recognition technology, and they’re already receiving pushback.
A $5 million lawsuit was filed accusing the company of violating privacy and consumer-protection laws by failing to “sufficiently disclose its use of the technology and the data collected.”
Disney claims it converts photos of faces into numerical data and uses that to detect unauthorized uses of guest passes. They claim the data is destroyed 30 days later but also make exceptions for undisclosed “legal reasons.”
Disney must remove its facial recognition technology from its theme parks immediately.
Why is this important?
Facial recognition technology involves many practical and ethical issues. Over and over again, it has misidentified women and ethnic minorities, sometimes as much as 34% more often than it did lighter-skinned men.
Law enforcement uses facial recognition technology to surveil everyone from peaceful protesters to immigrants. The pictures taken are then scanned against millions of photos in federal and state databases that include driver's license pictures.
This technology is not harmless, and Disney using it to take pictures of adults as well as children is cause for concern.
We’ve seen how businesses and corporations have misused facial recognition technology to violate individual rights. Families should be able to go to a theme park without having their privacy compromised. Add your name to the petition!