ADADThe countless hours of video — much of it taken by the rioters themselves and uploaded to social media — also offers an ideal data set for facial recognition. While facial recognition technology often struggles to reliably identify people with dark skin, the large majority of the Trump supporters who entered the Capitol on Wednesday appeared to be White. Justice Department officials have said that federal investigators are using tools such as facial recognition to help analyze a weighty amount of photos, videos and other evidence. Instead, the events were captured in countless smartphone photos, video live streams and location-tagged social media posts. More than 390,000 facial recognition searches have been run by local, state and federal investigators over the last decade.

Source: Washington Post January 08, 2021 21:37 UTC