How businesses can stop data breaches
To protect both themselves and their customers, companies need to secure their data.
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.
An amendment to the Telecommunications Information Privacy Code now means emergency calls can be tracked to help emergency services locate you more quickly. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
The move comes in the wake of concerns over law enforcement's tracking of protesters in Ferguson.
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.
Westpac has failed in its argument to the Privacy Commission that customers sign away their rights to privacy when they agree to the bank's "terms and conditions".
Comment: New ways of teaching have some merits, but many flaws.
You don't need to be a "bad hombre" to have your phone seized at airports.
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.
COMMENT: The accidental "death" of Mark Zuckerberg is a timely reminder of what happens to our online content once we do pass away.
A young professional set up his phone in a bathroom to record a 13-year-old girl taking a shower, a court has heard.
Every click you make is being monitored, and a new website shows you how.