It's a scary look into the future, but in a way, the "tech" they use in the series makes our current lack of privacy look quaint. Every move of every individual in the society is logged by the Corporate Congress.Wikipedia.org wrote:Corporate Protective Services (CPS) law enforcement officer Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nichols) lives a quiet, normal life with her husband and son in 2077-era Vancouver. Under the corporatocratic and oligarchic dystopia of the North American Union and its "Corporate Congress", life goes on in apparent freedom under a technologically advanced high-surveillance police state.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_(TV_series)
The CMR also gives them the ability to see through private buildings, replay events within those buildings, enhanced senses, including firearm detection (apparently by detecting the chemical and material components of various firearms), face recognition, and night vision, and scan fingerprints just by glancing at any surface — instantly determining age of the prints, intensity and identification instantly.The cellular memory review/recall (CMR) is a futuristic liquid chip technology implanted in Kiera Cameron and other Protectors' brains. It is a memory pack bio-upgrade hardwired into the cortex of individuals to record telemetry, smell, video and audio and can hold 36 hours' worth of recorded audio-visual data. Protectors usually transmit updates of each 24 hours' worth of recorded audio-visual data at the end of the day to the main police database (CPS Server Dump) to be archived.
The chip is linked to the cybernetic visual implants in them that gives them a "heads-up display" or HUD, allowing them to scan their targets, detect biorhythms, heat, have telescopic vision, and others. The chip is also linked to the Protectors' uniform.
It is also the CMR that connects the Protectors to the security net that serves as their main form of communication with the City Protective Services' central server
Source: http://continuum.wikia.com/wiki/Cellular_Memory_Review
The CPS uniform has advanced capabilities including color change, ability to interfere with monitoring devices (likely localized EM pulse), and impressive bullet stopping capabilities, and providing the wearer with invisibility.
They have highly advanced truth serums that are given to suspects:
The main target of the CPS officiers is "Liber8" — a radical group of anti-corporate activists, often described as terrorists, anarchists, revolutionaries, and freedom-fighters. The show takes place between 2012 and 2077 as Liber8 travels back to 2012 to try to change the future. The main character is Kiera Cameron (played by Rachel Nichols) who travels back to 2012 as she tries to stop Liber8 and the lines of who is good and bad becomes blurred."Flash," also known as Retrievanol, is a memory drug from 2077. Initially developed as a drug for Alzheimer's patients and administered only under strict protocols, the secrets to Flash became public knowledge and became popular as a recreational drug among "people looking to escape their lives" when Alzheimer's was cured.
When taken, through eye drops, Flash gives the user a vivid recollection of a memory you choose to remember with the drug in your system. According to Ricky, the event you see does not even have to be real; the user can still experience it in a flash as long as they can imagine it as if it did happen. Also, apparently according to Nadia, a re-experienced memory through flash, although extremely detailed, may not be completely accurate, as her experience was never as "perfect" as it was through Flash, and that what the user sees through Flash might just be "what you hope is true".
Source: http://continuum.wikia.com/wiki/Flash
I'm only 7 episodes in, but I highly recommend it!