Foreign Minister Murray McCully said Brazil had had a "very measured response" to news reports that New Zealand spied on its campaign to get Brazilian diplomat Roberto Azevedo elected.

An inquiry into NZ’s electronic surveillance agency has been launched, and Prime Minister John Key says he has "absolutely no concerns about it'.

Nicky Hager recently told the radio station bFM that “in some respects we’re only just at the beginning of what people are going to find out”.

Spying by the GCSB on those competing against Tim Groser for the World Trade Organisation's top job has appalled a former foreign affairs and trade minister.

Our spies monitored email and internet traffic about international diplomats vying for the job of director- general of the World Trade Organisation.

A top secret document reveals New Zealand's surveillance agency spied on candidates vying to be the director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

Wrong, says the Prime Minister of the surveillance stories, but he won't say why. David Fisher analyses the Edward Snowden leaks.

The GCSB not only spies on the Solomon Islands using its Waihopai satellite interception base - it also had a secret listening post inside the country, according to documents provided by the United States National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snow

Labour leader Andrew Little says he is more assured about the activities of the GCSB than he was a week ago, but he said Prime Minister John Key and the minister responsible for the spy agencies,....

NZ spies on Vietnam, China, India, Pakistan, South American nations and a range of other countries to help fill gaps in worldwide surveillance operations by the US.

John Key yesterday suggested Cheryl Gwyn, Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, would tell him if she thought the GCSB was acting outside the law.

Leaders of Pacific nations are beginning to speak out about claims New Zealand has been keeping too close an eye on their people and one prime minister has called the move a breach of trust.

Many New Zealanders will not feel scandalised by the Herald's revelations about their country's spying in the Pacific.

Former director of the GCSB Sir Bruce Ferguson says mass surveillance was being undertaken in the Pacific, and it was mission impossible to eliminate Kiwis’ data.

Snowden documents show how foreign intelligence staff follow a step-by-step process to access the GCSB's South Pacific intelligence.

Exclusive: Flaws in the management of New Zealand's spy networks have been exposed, including problems getting intelligence material to the Prime Minister.

Prime Minister John Key says New Zealand's likely military contribution to the fight against Islamic State "is the price of the club" that New Zealand belongs to.

The surprise departure of NZ spy agency boss Ian Fletcher has prompted questions about whether he was unsettled by potential changes which could be in the pipeline.

Kim Dotcom weighs in on resignation of Government Communications Security Bureau head Ian Fletcher, who is standing down for "family reasons".

In a last minute year-end coda to the serpentine illegal GCSB spying saga, a political reporter has received an apology from Parliamentary Service over a breach of her privacy.

Why country's spy chiefs can no longer get away with saying "we can neither confirm or deny" to questions about espionage.

Could Kim Dotcom recover some credit in this country? A university lecturer in cultural studies thinks so.

The first ever academic study of state snooping in New Zealand is among 101 research projects to win grants in this year's Marsden Fund round.

The $103m taxpayer funding of NZ's intelligence agencies is effectively a membership fee for joining the Five Eyes surveillance club, according to a de-classified report.