"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.

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.

PwC Herald Talks: Apple and cyber security with MP Amy Adams and Microsoft NZ Legal Counsel, Michael Brick.

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.

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.

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.