Tragic end for German ‘reality star’

Another sad indictment of modern life as German ‘adult actress’ (porn star) Cora, real name Carolin Berger, died yesterday at the age of 23 years following complications during her sixth breast enlargement. Cora, who came to the attention of the nation as a contestant in the German Big Brother series, had been in a coma for nine days following the …

Big Brother

In the UK, a report has revealed that the police and other official bodies made 504,073 surveillance requests to telephone and email companies. That is the equivalent of tapping the phone and email of one in seventy-eight members of the adult population.

They want to watch you even more

The British Government seems to be abandoning the idea of one, huge Big Brother Database containing records of everyone’s phone call, emails and website visits. Instead, the Home Office will ask communications companies, from internet service providers to mobile phone networks, to extend the amount of information they hold on their subscribers and organise it so that it can be …