I wonder if it's a ploy to either secure a monopoly on iris-scanning biometrics, or poison the market for everyone else? Either they have a monopoly on it and

I wonder if it's a ploy to either secure a monopoly on iris-scanning biometrics, or poison the market for everyone else? Either they have a monopoly on it and it's all good (it's fine for them to have the data since they are verifier anyway), or if not, then it makes sure no other company can exist in this space since they have a massive database of high-resolution biometrics that could presumably allow to bypass any competitor's product, making it a non-starter.