The Personal Data Authority (AP) has investigated eight vacation parks that use facial recognition to access swimming pools and playgrounds. In all cases, this was found to violate privacy laws.
For example, pools and parks did not inform their guests that they could also gain access to accommodations without facial recognition. "People were surprised," says AP vice president Monique Verdier. "Where they used to enter the pool with a pass or a wristband, now suddenly facial recognition was used. For adults, but also for children. Just to get into the pool. Is that allowed just like that? That's what they wanted to know."
"This is very serious. You should not pressure people to give up their biometric data. Yet that was what happened here: people pay for a nice vacation, including a swimming pool, and are presented with a fait accompli: if you want to swim, you have to give up your data. That is prohibited," said the AP vice president.