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.

Pictures of a naked judge apparently holidaying at a nudist camp were used to promote the resort without the judge's knowledge.

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.

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.

One of New Zealand’s most experienced private investigators offers advice on how to deal with stalkers.

Spy chief Rebecca Kitteridge dreaming of a show featuring her very own spooks, writes Brian Rudman. "If the public could see the people of the SIS doing their work, they would be delighted to see what hardworking, terrific people."

Tens of millions of customer records are up for sale despite promises not to sell data to third parties in RadioShack's privacy policy.

In a speech to a privacy and identity conference in Wellington, Mr Dunne said it was crucial there were robust systems in place to protect the privacy.

The inquiry would study the way the GCSB chose its targets, what its decision-making process was and how it stuck to its duty to be politically neutral.

Private investigator Daniel Toresen asks, can you serve court notices via Facebook? "The rule of effective service is to bring the notice to the person's attention in an expedient manner. Facebook is now an accepted method to do just that."