Sheriff's deputies in western Oregon are now using Amazon's artificial-intelligence tool Rekognition in an effort to help apprehend suspects.
According to a report by the Washington Post's Drew Harwell, the technology...
"allows the law enforcement officers to match a suspect’s face across more than 300,000 mug shots taken at the county jail since 2001. A grainy picture of someone’s face — captured by a security camera, a social-media account or a deputy’s smartphone — can quickly become a link to their identity, including their name, family and address. More than 1,000 facial-recognition searches were logged last year, said deputies, who sometimes used the results to find a suspect’s Facebook page, visit their home or make an arrest."
Harwell joined Armstrong & Getty to talk about the use of the technology, listen below to the entire A&G Extra Large Interview...