only P via 1984

[Joe Allonby]

When a corporation becomes as large and capitalized as Disney, it can
seem almost as its own nation, government, society, culture. Disney in
particular exhibits these characteristics. Think of the technology
involved in the current level of animation. They should be able to
produce facial recognition software in-house.


On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Naomi Wolf ponders the new "totalitarianism of surveillance": A software
> engineer in my Facebook community wrote recently about his outrage that when
> he visited Disneyland, and went on a ride, the theme park offered him the
> photo of himself and his girlfriend to buy – with his credit card
> information already linked to it. He noted that he had never entered his
> name or information into anything at the theme park, or indicated that he
> wanted a photo, or alerted the humans at the ride to who he and his
> girlfriend were – so, he said, based on his professional experience, the
> system had to be using facial recognition technology. He had never signed an
> agreement allowing them to do so, and he declared that this use was illegal.
> He also claimed that Disney had recently shared data from facial-recognition
> technology with the United States military.Yes, I know: it sounds like a
> paranoid rant.