The Los Angeles police department (LAPD) has directed its officers to collect the social media information of every civilian they interview, including individuals who are not arrested or accused of a crime, according to records shared with the Guardian.Copies of the “field interview cards†that police complete when they question civilians reveal that LAPD officers are instructed to record a civilian’s Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media accounts, alongside basic biographical information. An internal memo further shows that the police chief, Michel Moore, told employees that it was critical to collect the data for use in “investigations, arrests, and prosecutionsâ€, and warned that supervisors would review cards to ensure they were complete.
Michael Cannon & Matthew Feeney return to the show to discuss Orwell’s totalitarian society from his classic novel, 1984, that was eventually turned into a lessâ€â€‹thanâ€â€‹impressive film.Winston Smith is a minor government employee, living in Oceania, whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country’s leaders in a charitable light. And in this closelyâ€â€‹monitored society, there is no way to escape from Big Brother. A classic novel written by George Orwell and published in 1949 was adapted for the big screen in 1984.
