There was a whole load of these zombies lining up here in the local shopping centre to give Altman their irises.
They're free to do so of course but they're lowering the barrier for privacy significantly by presenting the world with the reality of a significant proportion of the population with their irises scanned. Thus it will be harder for us to keep our privacy just like privacy on internet is gone as a fait accompli. People are already using this as a debate argument against privacy: "Your privacy is already gone anyway so why do you care about this new issue?". That's how bad things have become.
The same way as that, having a significant portion of society do this, will mean I'll be unable to prove I'm not a bot without getting my own eyes scanned in the future.
I've done the zombie thing and it's less of a privacy issue than you might think. They don't need your name or contact details, though you can optionally give some.
Your name is most likely a lot less unique than your iris is. They don't need it. Once more services start using iris scanning it can all be correlated. The issue is not now but for the future.
There was a whole load of these zombies lining up here in the local shopping centre to give Altman their irises.
They're free to do so of course but they're lowering the barrier for privacy significantly by presenting the world with the reality of a significant proportion of the population with their irises scanned. Thus it will be harder for us to keep our privacy just like privacy on internet is gone as a fait accompli. People are already using this as a debate argument against privacy: "Your privacy is already gone anyway so why do you care about this new issue?". That's how bad things have become.
The same way as that, having a significant portion of society do this, will mean I'll be unable to prove I'm not a bot without getting my own eyes scanned in the future.