COMMENT: Expect to see more politically motivated hacks and leaks that aim to influence politics in New Zealand, writes Juha Saarinen.

COMMENT: Why not take a leaf out of sales systems geeks' Vend's book?

Playboy model Dani Mathers has received massive backlash for posting a photo of a naked woman in the shower of a gym to Snapchat

A court has overturned a decision saying it must hand over messages of a suspected drug trafficker.

Pokemon Go has raised security concerns after the app accessed users' personal information.

As millions of people rush to join Pokémon Go, questions are being raised over how secure the app is.

Facebook plans to roll out secret conversations protected by end-to-end encryption to more users later this summer.

The internet has not evolved in the way it had been envisioned.

COMMENT: Businesses need to build on the progress that they've already made with respect to traditional threats.

Transport Minister Simon Bridges says road tolling could be done by GPS satellite, as opposed to toll gantries or cameras.

Nearly half of female students spoken to in a new survey said they had had an embarrassing photo put online against their will last year.

Tech leaders are meeting in San Francisco to discuss making the Web a more decentralised, secure, and less censored place.

What's the first thing you would do if you lost your smartphone?

We're beginning to see the long-term impact of Apple vs FBI.

If users want their messages to be encrypted, they will have to opt in.

Is it possible for a connected society to ever be fully secure?

Ahead of Privacy Week, science reporter Jamie Morton finds many Kiwis now accept their personal data doesn't just belong to them.

We seldom stop to think about the personal information we are constantly transmitting to the world from the phone in our pocket.

Kiwis more worried about corporates accessing their data than Government doing it, internet user survey finds.

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?

When Sir Michael Cullen was asked why he and Dame Patsy Reddy had not simply recommended a merger of the two intelligence agencies, he was blunt, writes Claire Trevett.

Tim Cook's experiences growing up as a gay youth in rural Alabama are key to understanding how he became an outspoken corporate leader.