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FBI face recognition trawl finds Capitol rioter via his girlfriends Instagram

The FBI used facial recognition tools to track down one of the Capitol riot suspects. The tool apparently brought researchers to the Instagram feed of a suspects girlfriend. It was a short step from there to matching his clothes with images from the rioters. Crowdsourcing also has a history of going horribly wrong, and the infamous Reddit Boston Bombing debacle is as good a place to drop this warning as any. To me, this is more impressive than digging a pile of selfies and readily available data on popular image sharing websites.”]

Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/privacy-2/2021/04/fbi-face-recognition-trawl-finds-capitol-rioter-via-his-girlfriends-instagram/

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