- April 22nd, 2005, 3:50 pm
#11862
From what I've read on the Disney and BGW systems - which sound very similar to the one Carowinds is testing - they do not store your fingerprints at all.
They take a "biometric measurement" of your fingers and assign a number to that which is stored on the pass the first time you use it. When you use it again, it does the measurement, checks that the numbers match, and it lets you in. The biometric measurement doesn't provide a unique identifier like a fingerprint - people can have the same measurements - but it's enough to serve the purpose of determining whether the cardholder's fingers are actually in the machine.
KenB
They take a "biometric measurement" of your fingers and assign a number to that which is stored on the pass the first time you use it. When you use it again, it does the measurement, checks that the numbers match, and it lets you in. The biometric measurement doesn't provide a unique identifier like a fingerprint - people can have the same measurements - but it's enough to serve the purpose of determining whether the cardholder's fingers are actually in the machine.
KenB