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.

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.

Google logs all of your searches, analyses them, and uses them to individually personalise the search results you see.

It would be surprising if our intelligence agencies were not spying on China in some way, writes David Fisher.

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.

Yesterday Wikileaks posted a near-ready investment chapter of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) dated January 20.

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.