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.

John Key worked to undermine the Herald's spying revelations before he knew what they were, writes David Fisher.

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.

Police have warned tenants searching for accommodation to beware of an international property scam as more attempts to dupe renters came to light yesterday.

One of seven men accused of running Megaupload as a piracy enterprise has been arrested in the US, prompting speculation he will testify against Kim Dotcom.

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.

The police raids on internet mogul Kim Dotcom’s mansion were legal, the Supreme Court has ruled.

North Korea is suffering internet outages just days after Barack Obama's warning over the Sony hacking.

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.