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Tide going out on tax secrecy
Government announcements on pay-as-you-go rules and greater IRD disclosure powers welcomed by experts.
Government announcements on pay-as-you-go rules and greater IRD disclosure powers welcomed by experts.
New tax rules might be more convenient for small business, but IRD is getting new powers to share tax details with others.
New Zealand's intelligence agencies would be able to access individuals' tax information if parliament backs the recent review carried out by Michael Cullen and Patsy Reddy.
COMMENT: Cullen-Reddy report finds little to offset concerns raised by our links with global intelligence network, writes Keith Locke.
Labour leader Andrew Little met United States' intelligence chief James Clapper yesterday - on the initiative of the Prime Minister's office.
Three solutions that allow officials to gather evidence without the creation of "backdoors."
"Free society" appears twice within the report but isn't it reasonable to hope the concept might get more of a look in? Toby Manhire investigates.
Society is increasingly under surveillance - but is our added safety worth loss of privacy?
The Constitution does not allow the government to conscript private companies to invent products or to change the products that they have invented," Apple's lawyer said.
People are a big part of the cybersecurity problem.
The companies are showing their support for Apple, which is fighting the U.S. government over accessing a locked iPhone.
The Government mostly needs no warrant and companies hand over information even if not legally obligated to do so, writes Rodney Hide.
The fight between Apple and the US government comes down to a technical enigma wrapped in layers of emotional debate.
The Independent Review of Intelligence and Security Services is due to deliver its recommendations to the Government on Monday.
FBI and Apple could surely look at shooter's phone without betraying wider public rights.
Pictures of a naked judge apparently holidaying at a nudist camp were used to promote the resort without the judge's knowledge.
More than 70 upper North Island health workers have been disciplined for snooping into patients' records in the past three years.
As toys go high-tech, hackers are zeroing in on a particularly vulnerable target - children.
There's not much point in "watch list" filled with people you don't have the capability to watch.
The leaders of the world's richest and most powerful nations have pledged for the first time not to conduct cyber economic espionage.
Snapchat updated its Terms of Service last week, and the internet freaked out a little bit.
People responsible for responding to OIA requests will need to take more care in identifying the documents that have been requested and considering their content, writes Nick Russell.
Facebook is following you around the web, writes, Megan McArdle. This bothers many people, especially since it keeps expanding the list of things it knows about you, and the ways it is willing to use that data to make money.