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NEWS ABOUT: Big Brother

Big Brother stories: 14 news summaries
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Vulgar Online Comment Costs Man His Job

He posts dirty word, then gets tracked via his IP address

Nov 20, 09 8:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Commenters, beware. A St. Louis man who posted a vulgarity at a newspaper website soon found himself out of a job. When the St. Louis Post-Dispatch asked readers to weigh in with the strangest thing they've ever eaten, one guy responded with what the paper describes as a "vulgar... More »

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Internet • Big Brother • inappropriate comments • comments • vulgarity

OH BROTHER


 Big Brother 
 Winner 
 Nabbed for 
 Peddling Oxy 

Jasinski says he used $500K prize to buy, sell painkillers

Oct 20, 09 1:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Big Brother 9 winner Adam Jasinski made his first court appearance today in Massachusetts after being charged with trying to sell 2,000 prescription painkiller pills. After a brief struggle with agents, the DEA says Jasinski waived his Miranda rights and confessed to using his $500,000 winnings from... More »

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reality TV • OxyContin • DEA • prescription drugs • Drug Enforcement Administration • Oxycodone • Big Brother • contestants • prescription painkillers • Adam Jasinski • winner

Turkish Women Lured to Fake Big Brother, Filmed Naked

Police rescue 9 after calls from worried relatives

Sep 11, 09 5:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Police rescued nine young women who had been lured to a Turkish villa where they were duped into believing they were part of a Big Brother-style reality show and photographed naked, reports the BBC and local media. The women stayed in the villa for 2 months, initially believing they were... More »

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Turkey • reality TV • Internet • women • Istanbul • Big Brother • nude photo • nude • naked

Brit Big Brother Contestant Slashes Wrists

Incident renews debate over mental health of reality TV contestants

Jul 31, 09 7:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - A contestant on the British edition of Big Brother slit his wrists after he was voted off the show, reports the Guardian. Sree Dasari, still being treated in the hospital, was an unpopular character; he faced mockery after flirting with another housemate who wasn't attracted to him, and when he... More »

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reality TV • United Kingdom • mental health • Big Brother • wrist • suicide attempt

(Newser) - Reality shows throw anyone who signs a waiver onto TV. Some have higher aspirations, but most rest solidly in "How low can they go?" territory. Annie Barrett of Entertainment Weekly looks at 35 of the most appalling reality TV shows.
  • Jail:  A new low from the
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Anna Nicole Smith • reality TV • Paris Hilton • OJ Simpson • TV shows • Nicole Richie • The Simple Life • Big Brother • primetime TV • Jerry Springer • Paula Abdul • live television • Cops

 Dying Reality TV Star Says 'I Do' 

Jade Goody weds fiancé Jack Tweed in a televised ceremony

Feb 22, 09 4:37 PM CST
(Newser) - British reality TV star Jade Goody married fiancé Jack Tweed today in an emotional ceremony near London, the BBC reports. Goody, whose battle with cancer has played out on UK television, shed tears because of "the lovely things that were being said,” she said. Like most recent events... More »

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cancer • television • reality TV • cervical cancer • marriage • Big Brother • Jade Goody

Brit Reality Star Prepares to Die on Camera

Jade Goody's decision prompts questions of who is exploiting whom

Feb 20, 09 10:20 AM CST
(Newser) - Ever since she appeared on Big Brother at age 21, Jade Goody has captivated a British public willing to eat up every detail of the working-class reality star's life. Now that the 27-year-old has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, the public may have the chance to watch her die, reports... More »

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reality TV • cervical cancer • Big Brother • Britain • British tabloids • Jade Goody

(Newser) - A European human-rights court has ruled that Britain has gotten a little too Big Brotherish in its effort to build a DNA database of its citizens. The court ruled that the UK has no right to keep DNA evidence from criminal suspects who are later cleared, the Guardian reports. The... More »

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Big Brother • DNA database • Britain • personal privacy

Opinion

 Big Brother Comes to Sweden 

New surveillance law has country partying like it's 1984

Jul 13, 08 1:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Don’t believe the hype: “Sweden is no cuddly liberal democracy,” writes Nathalie Rothschild for Spiked, berating her home country for “introducing the most Draconian surveillance law in Europe.” Known as the FRA law but nicknamed "Lex Orwell" by opponents, the legislation gives intelligence agencies... More »

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terrorism • surveillance • Sweden • FISA • Big Brother • eavesdropping • government spying

 EU Eyes Anti-Terror Camera
 for Every Seat 

System watches movement, faces

Jun 1, 08 6:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - A camera may be planted in every airline seat in Europe, if an EU plan under development is approved. Dubbed SAFEE (Security of Aircraft in the Future European Environment), the system would also aim cameras at the aisles. Software would then watch for suspicious movements, gestures, and even facial expressions. More »

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surveillance • airport security • Big Brother • security cameras

FBI Plans Huge Biometric Index

On project 'Next Generation Identification'

Dec 22, 07 12:29 PM CST
(Newser) - The FBI is planning a $1 billion database of “biometric” information—face shapes, iris scans, palm patterns, and even gait patterns—to enhance investigations, the Washington Post reports. Critics fear that the plan, called Next Generation Identification, will further erode individual privacy as the body becomes a de facto... More »

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FBI • biometrics • law enforcement • Berlin • privacy • fingerprinting • identity card • Big Brother

London About to Sack Plastic

House of Commons to vote on outlawing free plastic shopping bags

Nov 14, 07 5:30 AM CST
(Newser) - The ubiquitous free plastic bag will soon be more than London merchants can handle. That's because Council officials yesterday voted to ban London retailers from handing out the free sacks, sending the matter to the House of Commons for a final ruling. The London bill would require shoppers to use... More »

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plastic bags • environmentalism • Big Brother

UK Is Ready
for Its Closeup

With 1 surveillance camera for every 15 Britons, unexamined life is nonexistent

Oct 19, 07 4:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - The nation that embraced the "Big Brother" TV show is becoming eerily like the society George Orwell envisioned, reports the LA Times. Litterers under closed-circuit surveillance respond to commands to pick up trash they drop, and errant cyclists are ordered to dismount in pedestrian-only areas. Britons increasingly are trading... More »

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United Kingdom • privacy • counterterrorism • surveillance • Big Brother • CCTV footage • cctv

China Unleashes Web Cops

Cute caricatures will pop up, steer users clear of risqué content

Aug 28, 07 3:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - Beijing police have an answer for Internet users who might be tempted to gamble or watch the Paris Hilton sex video: an animated officer who moves across your screen in a virtual car, motorcycle or on foot while admonishing you to steer clear of illegal content. The cartoon alerts will... More »

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China • Internet • Communist Party • Internet security • cyber police • Big Brother

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