Faces of the Riot Posted Every Face from Parler's Capitol Hill Insurrection Videos

[ancianita]

Late last week, a website called Faces of the Riot appeared online, showing nothing but a vast grid of more than 6,000 images of faces, each one tagged only with a string of characters associated with the Parler video in which it appeared.

The site's creator tells WIRED that he used simple, open source machine-learning and facial recognition software to detect, extract, and deduplicate every face from the 827 videos that were posted to Parler from inside and outside the Capitol building on January 6, the day when radicalized Trump supporters stormed the building in a riot that resulted in five people's deaths.

The creator of Faces of the Riot says his goal is to allow anyone to easily sort through the faces pulled from those videos to identify someone they may know, or recognize who took part in the mob, or even to reference the collected faces against FBI wanted posters and send a tip to law enforcement if they spot someone.

"Everybody who is participating in this violence, what really amounts to an insurrection, should be held accountable," says the site's creator, who asked for anonymity to avoid retaliation. "It's entirely possible that a lot of people who were on this website now will face real-life consequences for their actions."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/this-site-posted-every-face-from-parlers-capitol-hill-insurrection-videos/

The DOJ and Congress should use all evidence gained from tech, and enforce the law accordingly.

[SunSeeker]

1. Good job. He should forward this to the DOJ/FBI. nt

[ancianita]

2. Indeed. And I'd bet money they already got it. They've a couple hundred thousand tips, so ...

the evidence is pretty straightforward.

In the future we shall know them by their arrest records.

[Sedona]

3. Knr nt

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[SheltieLover]

4. Every single person who entered Capitol

Should be charged with murders that occurred.

[Billytee]

5. Agreed

[Solly Mack]

6. K&R