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.

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.

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?

Internet mogul Kim Dotcom says his three-year, $10m legal fight against extradition to the US has left him 'officially broke' and 'unfairly persecuted'.

Only in a topsy-turvy world would it be seen as rational to bring a posse of spies to heel by increasing their rights to snoop without a warrant, writes Brian Rudman.

A European Parliament bid for legislation splitting up Google may send a message that's too loud to ignore.

Gehan Gunasekara writes: Privacy rules are inevitably cited as an excuse when bureaucratic bungling occurs in relation to managing people and information.

The term "secretary" comes from the Latin for secret. Back in the day, a secretarius was someone who worked for someone of great importance, like a king, and was in charge of confidential information.

WhatsApp, the world's most popular instant messaging platform, has begun encrypting all its data by default.

The Waldorf Astoria sale to a Chinese buyer is likely to spark a national security review to assess potential spying risks.

Kiwis are among tens of thousands of householders worldwide whose privacy has been breached on a website featuring intercepted live feeds.

The first ever academic study of state snooping in New Zealand is among 101 research projects to win grants in this year's Marsden Fund round.

Senior British tabloid editors are shown naked, embarrassed and scuttling for cover in a new documentary targeting them with the kind of treatment usually dished out by their own newspapers.

The chief executive of Apple has spoken of his pride in being gay, calling it "among the greatest gifts God has given me".

A real estate agent censured for rifling through a client's lingerie drawer at an open home has complained to the Human Rights Review Tribunal that his privacy has been breached.

I was intending to give Snowden and the topic of mass state surveillance a rest, as it is starting to feel done to death already.