New: Congrats to everyone who photographed themselves doing crimes in the Capitol. It's loaded with phone location trackers, and those (unmasked) pics could work great in a facial-recognition scan. Hundreds of FBI agents are working the case as we speak https://wapo.st/3hXFcXB 
Thousands of well-lit, high-def, publicly available photos of unmasked faces implicating themselves in a crime. Can't think of a more dream scenario for FBI. Former special agent: “Some people were being very blatant about it ... very easy to find" https://wapo.st/3hXFcXB 
Video, cell phone and facial-recognition data could lead police to Capitol rioters

Phone records make determining the owners of these devices trivially easy. Congressional investigators and federal prosecutors can also identify devices and users who may have connected wittingly or...

https://wapo.st/3hXFcXB
Don't go glorifying face-scan surveillance, though, says @evan_greer: "If you really believe that expanding technologies like facial recognition will primarily be used to target groups like the Proud Boys, you haven’t been paying attention to history" https://wapo.st/3hXFcXB 
Sure woulda been nice if they'd been blocked from leaving the crime scene in the first place: https://wapo.st/3q2mAZo 

Or if the authorities had taken the pre-siege threats more seriously: https://wapo.st/3rUJ2Fx 
Pro-Trump forums erupt with violent threats ahead of Wednesday’s rally against the 2020 election

In response to Trump's calls for protests in Washington Wednesday, far-right forums have erupted with talk of guns and potential violence as D.C. police and National Guard deploy heavily on the...

https://wapo.st/3q2mAZo
FBI with an assist from America's Favorite Homepage, http://washingtonpost.com  https://wapo.st/3hXFcXB 
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