It requires a decent camera with very good optics or short distance from your eyes to get a meaningful identification, so your casual CCTV mass surveillance isn't a problem. If I want anonymity, irises are going to be very low on my list of potential worries.
Also, I consider those to be public data (just like my face, fingerprints, overall appearance, voice or DNA), because anyone willing within a reasonable proximity can get this data anyway and there's no stopping it. So, if some company wants to use that as an authenticator... well, that's a stupid idea that I would protest for anything sensitive (unauthorized access to which could actually cause me some griefs), but as long as it's not my liability (and for a credit card it is not - fraud disputes aren't fun but it's not my money either) they can do... whatever, I guess.
It requires a decent camera with very good optics or short distance from your eyes to get a meaningful identification, so your casual CCTV mass surveillance isn't a problem. If I want anonymity, irises are going to be very low on my list of potential worries.
Also, I consider those to be public data (just like my face, fingerprints, overall appearance, voice or DNA), because anyone willing within a reasonable proximity can get this data anyway and there's no stopping it. So, if some company wants to use that as an authenticator... well, that's a stupid idea that I would protest for anything sensitive (unauthorized access to which could actually cause me some griefs), but as long as it's not my liability (and for a credit card it is not - fraud disputes aren't fun but it's not my money either) they can do... whatever, I guess.
Or am I missing something?