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.

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.

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.

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.