{"id":16101,"date":"2014-04-15T20:23:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T00:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=16101"},"modified":"2017-04-10T09:47:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T13:47:36","slug":"wide-area-surveillance-technology-triggers-privacy-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/nsa-spying\/wide-area-surveillance-technology-triggers-privacy-concerns.php","title":{"rendered":"Wide-area surveillance technology triggers privacy concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wide-area surveillance technology triggers privacy concerns<\/strong><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/rundown\/wide-area-surveillance-technology-triggers-privacy-concerns\/\" title=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/rundown\/wide-area-surveillance-technology-triggers-privacy-concerns\/\">http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/rundown\/wide-area-surveillance-technology-triggers-privacy-concerns\/<\/a><\/p><div style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/surveillance2.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"467\" class style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A look from above at wide-area surveillance technology in action. The tool is described in a new report by the Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED as &ldquo;Google Earth with a rewind button.&rdquo; Credit: CIR<\/p><\/div><p>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.<\/p><p>The piece also touches on the potential use of wide-area surveillance by law enforcement, a technology described as &ldquo;Google Earth with a rewind button and the ability to play back the movement of cars and people as they scurry about the city.&rdquo;<\/p><p>These new advances raise questions about how extensively the public is monitored by the government.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=y2fEslRCsTY\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&#038;v=y2fEslRCsTY<\/a><\/p><p>To learn more about how the nation&rsquo;s state of surveillance may be changing, I spoke with G.W. Schulz, Homeland Security Reporter for CIR.<\/p><p>&ldquo;What we wanted to do was identify technologies that were coming around the corner for law enforcement agencies,&rdquo; Schulz said.<\/p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s already an ongoing 21st century discussion about the types of digital technologies that police are adopting and the potential privacy and civil liberties implications for them&hellip; We wanted to look a little bit further down the road to see what could be implemented in the coming years.&rdquo;<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=6VkKeM-OK6g\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&#038;v=6VkKeM-OK6g<\/a><\/p><p>More: <a href=\"http:\/\/cironline.org\/reports\/hollywood-style-surveillance-technology-inches-closer-reality-6228\" title=\"http:\/\/cironline.org\/reports\/hollywood-style-surveillance-technology-inches-closer-reality-6228\">http:\/\/cironline.org\/reports\/hollywood-style-surveillance-technology-inches-closer-reality-6228<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wide-area surveillance technology triggers privacy concerns <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/rundown\/wide-area-surveillance-technology-triggers-privacy-concerns\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/rundown\/wide-area-surveillance-technology-triggers-privacy-concerns\/<\/a> 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-snowden","category-nsa-spying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}