Prime Minister John Key says ACT leader Rodney Hide has shown good judgment and has his full support following the resignation of disgraced MP David Garrett from the party.

The Act Party has been "thoroughly" discredited and its ministerial positions should be removed, Labour leader Phil Goff says. "One thing the public can't stand is absolute hypocrisy."

Act leader Rodney Hide says David Garrett lost his support because he doubted the MP had been truthful in an affidavit he submitted to court over a passport fraud case.

Disgraced Act MP David Garrett has quit his party and conceded his political career is almost certainly over.

Rodney Hide refused to say how he would respond to David Garrett's public admission of identity theft until this afternoon.

The mother of the 2 year-old whose identity was stolen by David Garrett has described the identity theft as 'stealing from the grave'.

Act MP David Garrett thought faking his appearance to steal a dead baby's identity to obtain a passport was "a bit of a lark", a court file reveals.

The Prime Minister is refusing to comment on whether Act MP David Garrett should resign from Parliament but has called the use of a dead baby's identity as "bizarre."

NZ Herald readers have reacted strongly to the revelation that Act's hardline law and order spokesman MP David Garrett applied for a passport under the name of a dead child in the 1980s.

Act MP David Garrett has instructed his lawyer to apply for an urgent waiver to have the name suppression order on his passport fraud case lifted.

How much more bizarre can Act's rapid disintegration as a functioning political party get?

His credibility on the line, Rodney Hide has backed MP David Garrett, who admitted stealing a dead baby's identity to obtain a false passport.

Seventy per cent of NZ adults have been the victim of online crimes ranging from identity theft to having their computer infected with a virus.

The security consultant for a New Zealand bank was the inspiration for a main character in a new novel.

One of NZ's top fly fishermen was stopped from boarding a plane to the World Championships because police thought he was a drug dealer.

Nearly half of us use social networks - and most are concerned about how much personal information children share online.

Eighty-one per cent of New Zealanders are happy to use fingerprint scans to prove their identity and 68% are willing to have their eyes scanned.

New Zealanders can now insure their most personal asset in the country's first identity theft insurance scheme.