A woman took a hotel to court in an attempt to find out the name of the father of her baby

COMMENT: Today's excessive privacy often hides characteristics society should respect.

Debt collection agencies are heavily regulated and should not strong-arm you.

To protect both themselves and their customers, companies need to secure their data.

Meanwhile, a plan to require all NGOs to give up their private data has been criticised.

A new study has shown 16 per cent of Australian doctors have Googled their patient.

Police investigated a relationship between a man in his 50s and a teenage girl.

US president under pressure to force WhatsApp to hand over vital evidence on the attack.

Nicky Hager is again releasing a book in election year, but its subject is a mystery.

The move comes in the wake of concerns over law enforcement's tracking of protesters in Ferguson.

The man credited with inventing the World Wide Web says we need to make some drastic changes.

A doctor was shocked when personal medical notes were accessed by her employer.

WikiLeaks has threatened to release the software code of CIA hacking tools to tech firms.

COMMENT: Bribery may be rare in New Zealand but other forms of corruption are not, writes Grant McLachlan.

Nicky Hager says he will take Westpac to the Human Rights Tribunal.

A student leader has been awarded $18,000 compensation after a privacy breach.

The country's biggest banks all have different positions on the circumstances under which they would give up your data to the authorities.

Double-murderer Jason Reihana was treated at Waikato Hospital earlier this month next to patients unaware they were sharing a ward with him.

You don't need to be a "bad hombre" to have your phone seized at airports.

Labour and Act say they will back a Green Party proposal to give domestic violence victims up to 10 days' paid leave.

The Auckland Central MP says her breast cancer diagnosis in September last year has been transformational.

The Privacy Commissioner has slammed a photography business which told a mother they would delete photos they'd taken of her children - but used them in their promo material two years later.

Your online communications may not be as secure as you think, warns InternetNZ.

COMMENT: As I pulled down my pants, I felt reluctantly exposed. A man wearing rubber gloves was standing close enough to listen, Clare Rawlinson writes.

How much do teenagers - and adults - understand what they've agreed to give up when they sign up with social media sites?

Social media giants have been accused by UK officials of confusing children into signing away their privacy. Youngsters desperate

The Privacy Commissioner has publicly censured a Whanganui drilling company for failing to protect an employee's confidential information.

Details of the construction of the top secret spy base at Tangimoana were filed with Archives New Zealand with no security rating.

COMMENT: It is up to privacy scholars to come up with solutions that allow technological progress to take place, but not at the expense of our humanity.

At least two more schools have been investigated after complaints about seclusion rooms - including one that was eventually closed.