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Police, planes, videotapes, and the Constitution.

Hello again, I'm R. and Alany, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International,

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Some local police are experimenting with high-tech video recording that can track whatever moves in an American city for hours at a time. It's like Google Earth with a rewind button,

a kind of time machine, allowing police to review a crime, then track what happened before and after.

It and other new technologies,

including facial recognition, might even lead to stopping crimes in progress, but they're way ahead of the law. Will they increase public safety at the price of eliminating privacy in public

places? Today's talking point, a planet 500 light years away that looks very familiar.

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It sounds like a Hollywood movie, but surveillance technologies developed for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may be coming to a city near you.

Will wide area surveillance and facial recognition make America safer?

Do they threaten the right to privacy and the presumption of innocence?

Today's talking point,

Kepler 186F, sounds pretty obscure till you know what it stands for, a planet the right size and the right temperature to possibly support life, even photosynthesis. Maybe we're not alone after

all. First is news update. Yesterday in Geneva, diplomats from the U.S., Ukraine, the European Union, and Russia agreed that it's time to de-escalate the crisis in eastern Ukraine. So what's happening today on the ground? New York Times reporter Andrew Kramer is in the city of Don Yitzk. Good to have you on our program. Thanks for joining us. Thank you for having me on. What can you tell us? Well, it didn't take long for the local pro-Russian groups here in

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