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.

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.

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.

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.

A massive privacy breach has struck the beleaguered Novopay school payroll with personal details of staff members sent to wrong schools.

The Edge radio station breached the privacy of a 15-year-old girl after an on-air mishap, the Broadcasting Standards' Authority has found.

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.