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posted by mattie_p on Sunday March 09 2014, @07:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the we're-just-as-not-evil-as-google dept.

fx_68 writes:

Bloomberg Business Week reports that Disney is investing $1 billion (or milliard) in guest tracking. From the article:

Jason McInerney and his wife, Melissa, recently tapped their lunch orders onto a touchscreen at the entrance to the Be Our Guest restaurant at Florida's Walt Disney World Resort and were told to take any open seat. Moments later a food server appeared at their table with their croque-monsieur and carved turkey sandwiches. Asks McInerney, a once-a-year visitor to Disney theme parks: "How did they know where we were sitting?"

 
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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday March 09 2014, @03:07PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday March 09 2014, @03:07PM (#13620)

    So people get RDID chips on their wrists and then are surprised that they are tracked?

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