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Disney Adds Facial-Recognition Lanes at Anaheim, Faces Privacy Pushback

4/28/2026

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Disney added facial-recognition lanes at its Anaheim park in April 2026.
The system captures faces, converts them to values, and matches them to tickets.
Disney deletes the data after 30 days unless needed for legal or fraud purposes, while non-recognition lanes stay marked with a slash.
Latino visitors, ACLU and Electronic Frontier Foundation warn the technology could aid ICE and misidentify people of color, as Disney will drop 11 AM park-hopping in 2026.

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Story summary

Disney added facial-recognition lanes at its Anaheim park in April 2026.
The system captures faces, converts them to values, and matches them to tickets.
Disney deletes the data after 30 days unless needed for legal or fraud purposes, while non-recognition lanes stay marked with a slash.
Latino visitors, ACLU and Electronic Frontier Foundation warn the technology could aid ICE and misidentify people of color, as Disney will drop 11 AM park-hopping in 2026.