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.

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?

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.

Station ordered to pay up after broadcasting woman who thought she was off air.

More and more people are posting snippets of their life online. They're capturing their day at the beach, the family dog's latest

Spark is critical of spying laws which leave it up to the company whether to volunteer information about its customers.

COMMENT: Some of the most popular sites in the world went offline over the weekend. There's no excuse for poor security, Juha Saarinen writes.

Someone attacked a major part of the Internet's infrastructure.

Women's refuges, church agencies and other community groups will soon have to hand over their client details to the Government in

Police are investigating the discovery of a hidden camera at a Waikato dairy farm.

The Chief Ombudsman will investigate the use of seclusion rooms in schools, following reports that locked "time out" rooms had been used to restrain children.

COMMENT: In the past, so the story goes, we had privacy and dignity - but we kissed it goodbye with a few keystrokes on social media.

The number of Kiwi domains caught up in a global data hack of popular US online file hosting service Dropbox has been estimated at 120,000.

Ever wanted to secretly record your workmates to see what they say behind your back?

Yahoo last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails.

Yahoo should face an investigation into whether it properly disclosed a massive data breach, Virginia Senator Mark Warner says.

Police investigating claims that Pippa Middleton's iCloud account was hacked have arrested a 35-year-old man in Northamptonshire, Scotland Yard has said.

MasterCard refuses to say how many people were affected by the error, which resulted in some customers being charged more than once for a single purchase.