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.

Apple heads to Washington to make its case.

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.

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.

UK intelligence agency MI5 is paying Muslim informants for controversial short-term spying missions targeting homegrown Islamist extremists.

Millennials are most willing to gamble their privacy and security in exchange for a life online.

A British developer has come up with an ingenious way of getting rid of annoying spam emails and getting revenge on the people sending them in one fell swoop.

Last year a European court ordered the online search giant to bow to people's interest in obscurity.

The Privacy Commission has ruled that a drone did not breach a finger-pulling apartment-dweller's privacy when it flew within metres of his property.

Vulnerable university students had their privacy breached in an email asking them to rate their experiences with counselling services.

France's data privacy authority has ordered Google to extend the so-called right to be forgotten to its websites globally.

A plan to reveal the number of times agencies such as the police request and receive personal data from a range of companies has been applauded by Trade Me.

Personal details of foreign students studying in New Zealand have been leaked in a new Wikileaks dump.

Kiwis are at heightened risk of having their data leaked because of lax privacy law enforcement, a local insurance boss says.

Private medical notes about 90 patients - including details of a woman suffering mental illness after childbirth - were stolen from a social worker's car.