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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Why did the GCSB intercept emails to and from Solomon Island officials? Nicky Hager and Ryan Gallagher report.

Hillary Clinton has attempted to defuse a growing crisis over her controversial use of a private email account while Secretary of State, explaining that she had opted not to use a government email address as a "matter of convenience".

Is it really necessary to look at the contents of personal computers at the country's borders? Clearly Customs is already doing so.

You're still wrong! That's the message from John Key after a former director of the GCSB said the spy agency did carry out 'mass collection' of communications from the Pacific.

There is something breathtaking about the Prime Minister's scattergun pre-emptive denunciations.