'We take our obligations under the Privacy Act seriously" is a common refrain, sadly, observed more in the breach, writes Gehan Gunasekara.

Apple boss Tim Cook's been on tour - saying he too is worried about online privacy.

Exclusive: Flaws in the management of New Zealand's spy networks have been exposed, including problems getting intelligence material to the Prime Minister.

Health authorities could gain an unprecedented picture of how the flu spreads with complex models that reveal how we move among each other.

Smartmeter concerns have been around for quite some time now, and yes, they can be hacked.

The broadcasters of Campbell Live have been ordered to pay a woman who carried out experiments on beagles.

Twitter said government requests for user data and content removal jumped in the second half of 2014.

The internet has turned into a massive social experiment in which unknown people know everything about you and other people.

Unless it receives a more serious complaint, the company's only concern can be that it has staff so careless as to leave the lights on in a glass-fronted area.

The age of information-sharing is brilliant, as long as you have no secrets, writes Heather du Plessis-Allan.

Yes, you can have a reasonable expectation of privacy in a publicly visible place, writes privacy law expert Nicole Moreham.

Yet another guest visiting the businessman Kim Dotcom was detained by the Customs Service for hours. Welcome to New Zealand - unless you're here to see Kim Dotcom.

It's being described as a war, an arms race, an unseen struggle where the stakes are being raised and the weapons redefined each minute - the war a faceless cyber-criminal.

Sensitive health documents of four dead patients have been spilled on to a busy Auckland motorway.

Embattled internet tycoon Kim Dotcom says he is bearing the brunt of a vicious public backlash since the general election.

In a last minute year-end coda to the serpentine illegal GCSB spying saga, a political reporter has received an apology from Parliamentary Service over a breach of her privacy.

Last month's devastating cyber-attack on Sony Pictures was not an "act of war", but simple vandalism, President Barack Obama has said.

There is a lesson for us all in the continuing revelations from stolen Sony emails being splashed over worldwide media.

Hackers have left movers and shakers in Hollywood nervous. Late last month, they breached the cyber security of Sony Pictures and have since leaked a trove of internal company data and emails.

Why country's spy chiefs can no longer get away with saying "we can neither confirm or deny" to questions about espionage.

The Countering Terrorist Fighters Legislation Bill is expected to pass tonight under urgency with the support of National and Labour.

The case of Kim Dotcom has taken an extraordinary turn with the internet entrepreneur given a shot at getting back $60 million being held by authorities in Hong Kong.

Rodney Hide writes: Prime Minister John Key likes to text. So, perhaps it would help us all if Labour and the Greens drew up a list of whom the Prime Minister can and can't text?

Prime Minister John Key should accept it's "game over" and acknowledge his office's dirty tricks, says Labour Leader Andrew Little.

Internet mogul Kim Dotcom says his three-year, $10m legal fight against extradition to the US has left him 'officially broke'. So how much did he spend?