Gotcha! Sheriff's Office catches thieves using Amazon Rekognition - SiliconANGLE

Early last year, a man walked into a hardware store in Oregon, picked up a basket, and began placing a number of expensive items into it. At first glance, that alone would not have been enough to raise suspicion. However, before finishing the purchase process at a self-service kiosk, the man picked up his items and abruptly left the store. Fortunately for the retailer, the checkout kiosk had a camera that captured a photo of the thief. Unfortunately for the thief, the Washington County Sheriff's Office assigned to investigate the case had recently implemented a facial recognition system that was able to match the kiosk photo with a database containing more than 300,000 images.