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."

A wide-ranging review into New Zealand's intelligence agencies will be headed by former Deputy Prime Minister Sir Michael Cullen and lawyer Dame Patsy Reddy.

The “fabrication” claim has been part of the Prime Minister’s standard response to revelations of activities carried out by New Zealand’s electronic eavesdropping agency.

The GCSB's surveillance operations in Bangladesh are among the most surprising and obscure yet revealed.

A reader writes: Can you please explain the restrictions (if any) that apply to the use of video camera drones in suburban areas?

Google lost most of a challenge to an order that limits how it can combine user data.

Technology columnist Chris Barton comments on the problems with the Harmful Digital Communications Bill.

Pressure to broaden the use of identification numbers attached to preschoolers has concerned the Privacy Commissioner.

The latest Edward Snowden file spying revelations is a grievous abuse of power that should call into question that the GCSB is an agency concerned with protecting our security.

The first rule of spying is: don't get caught. Do so and there's a high risk you'll end up in a windowless underground concrete cell wondering when the goons clock on.

An inquiry into NZ’s electronic surveillance agency has been launched, and Prime Minister John Key says he has "absolutely no concerns about it'.

Swathes of personal data are being sought regularly by police from airlines, banks, electricity companies, internet providers and phone companies without warrants.

A resigning real estate agent who changed client contact details in a company database committed "commercial sabotage", the agents' disciplinary body says.

Spying by the GCSB on those competing against Tim Groser for the World Trade Organisation's top job has appalled a former foreign affairs and trade minister.

Our spies monitored email and internet traffic about international diplomats vying for the job of director- general of the World Trade Organisation.

A top secret document reveals New Zealand's surveillance agency spied on candidates vying to be the director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

Details of people's prescriptions are being fed into an online repository from pharmacies across the country.

The GCSB not only spies on the Solomon Islands using its Waihopai satellite interception base - it also had a secret listening post inside the country, according to documents provided by the United States National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snow

A decision on whether John Key's deletion of his text messages amounts to a destruction of the country's public records is progressing.

NZ spies targeted the emails and other electronic communications of the aides and confidants of the Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands, a top-secret document says.