The girlfriend of an Auckland schoolboy fatally injured in an attack after rugby practice has been subjected to vicious online bullying.

Privacy commissioners say the public should be wary about this but most people are not, writes John Roughan. They post much more personal information about themselves on internet sites.

Have you ever wanted to lock lips with someone on the internet? Burberry has teamed up with Google to create world-first technology allowing people to pash in cyberspace.

I became aware of the social networking site ask.fm in April when a mother of a girl in my daughter’s class copied me in on a letter she’d sent to the school principal.

The rise of social media has put "conversation without speech" at the centre of millions of lives, as Tom Chatfield explains.

A prominent Australian barrister has suggested US intel leaker Edward Snowden could seek refuge in 'pleasant' NZ, joining Kim Dotcom in resisting extradition.

The United States is braced for a drawn-out effort to capture Edward Snowden.

The glamorous dancer girlfriend of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has revealed her devastation at his decision to go on the run without her.

Revelations of snooping into private data and communications on a massive scale by the Obama Administration has shed a little dayligh.

Privacy scholars refer to the dangers of aggregation of data and the potential this affords for profiling of individuals and for making of assumptions, writes Gehan Gunasekara.

A mum will lobby NZ companies to pull their ads from a Latvia-based social networking site after her 12-year-old daughter was asked to provide explicit photos.

The Kingsland Business Community commissioned a film to help promote the inner Auckland area as a place to work and run a business.

More Kiwis are shopping online than ever before, with more than half of New Zealand adults contributing to $3.7 billion of internet sales last year.

So-called perishable pictures are enticing teens to share inappropriate photos of themselves in the belief the images will vanish after being viewed.

The Google Maps team won’t stop until it has every last inch of the planet stored on its servers. Would we really be so lost without them? asks Tom Chivers.

Taking the time to examine your Facebook ads can make for a depressing self-analysis, says Jack Tame.

An email has been doing the rounds with a PDF claiming to be from the United States Lottery Board, in conjunction with President Barack Obama's campaign team, telling people they have won US$920,000.

New Zealand police have contacted the owners of a controversial social networking website which enables bullying and has been linked to overseas suicides.

Finding a lover online is more likely to lead to a happier and longer marriage than getting together through more traditional means, a study has found.

The internet will make some English misspellings acceptable.

Cyber fraudsters sent a fake death certificate to try to dupe a lovestruck Kiwi woman into sending money overseas

A political strategist who has trained National Party MPs says the Ports of Auckland colluded with right wing bloggers to undermine industrial action against the Ports of Auckland.

Internet search companies such as Google have come under pressure to block child porn after a children's charity said that the sites "fuel the fantasies" of paedophiles who then sexually assault children.

Social networking site Twitter is becoming increasingly popular with teenage girls.