“A report from Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED posted Friday takes an in-depth look at new technologies that could revolutionize policing, including improvements to fingerprint databases and facial recognition software.

The piece also touches on the potential use of wide-area surveillance by law enforcement, a technology described as “Google Earth with a rewind button and the ability to play back the movement of cars and people as they scurry about the city.”

These new advances raise questions about how extensively the public is monitored by the government.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

*Read more here from Hari Sreenivasan / PBS:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/wide-area-surveillance-technology-triggers-privacy-concerns/