Rights groups including ACLU withdraw from talks with industry over face tracking standards, citing core disagreements

Nine public interest and civil liberties groups, among them the ACLU, have withdrawn from talks with industry associations over setting limits on face recognition technology in marketing and consumer tracking. The NYT reports:

Cops will soon be able to read our iris scans through reflections in our car mirrors

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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab Biometrics Center have won a gold Edison Award for their "Unconstrained Biometric Identification" technology, which enables real-time identification through futuristic iris scanning and facial recognition.