Feds Track Down Capitol Rioter Using Facial Recognition on Social Media Posts
21 Apr 2021
Federal authorities reportedly arrested a suspect in the U.S. Capitol riot after using facial recognition programs to find an image of the suspect on his girlfriend’s Instagram page. The arrest represents the first time that facial recognition was used to identify a suspect from the Capitol riot rather than to confirm the identity of an existing suspect.
The Huffington Post reports that federal authorities have arrested a suspect in the U.S. Capitol riot. The suspect is believed to be a man named Stephen Chase Randolph who was arrested in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, on Tuesday after authorities used facial recognition technology to find an image of him on his girlfriend’s Instagram page.