A major courier company has blamed a bug in the system after customers were able to track and trace other people's parcels.

One of the problems with using passwords to prove identity is that passwords that are easy to remember are also easy for an attacker to guess, and vice versa.

Public bodies and private corporations including internet giant Google are flouting the public's right to access personal data being held on them.

The EU has to rely on antitrust and privacy rules to curb Google's search-engine dominance and can't just break up the company, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said.

NZ has often been seen as a passive participant in the Five Eyes intelligence - sharing alliance, not unlike a good kid hanging out with the wrong crowd, writes Anna Crowe.

Phone companies have revealed the extent of Govt agency spying on their networks, with more than 70 secret wire taps last year in New Zealand alone.

A major new poll on Australians' view of themselves and the world has revealed a nation nervous at the rise of China

A Hawke's Bay nurse who admitted professional misconduct for having a sexual relationship with one of his patients has had his registration cancelled

John Key has accused John Campbell of falling for conspiracy theories in the wake of a Campbell Live show about the unlawful surveillance of Kim Dotcom.

An Auckland-wide surveillance network of CCTV cameras is being stitched together as the forerunner of a national system which could include facial recognition technology.

A registered nurse looked up the medical records of her former husband's new partner more than 40 times.

As Google digests the EU top court's ruling on 'the right to be forgotten', a paedophile has asked the internet giant to delete links about his conviction.

Deleting personal information online is costly and time-consuming for Web companies. Those difficulties are now set to be magnified in Europe for Google, Microsoft and others.

What happens if we stumble across something we consider to be irrelevant or outdated, or even something that might infringe on our privacy?

GCSB boss Ian Fletcher has assured everyday Kiwis they were not being spied on by the GCSB but says a public discussion is needed on greater internet regulation.

Australia is becoming increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks that could shut down power grids.

New Zealanders view social media providers as the least trustworthy organisations for keeping personal details private.

Whether you use Android, iOS, Blackberry or another system, you are vulnerable. On some systems, more than 40,000 pieces of malware exist to infect your device.

An Ohio couple awoke in the middle of the night to the sound of a man screaming "wake up baby!" before realising a hacker had hijacked the wireless baby monitor.

The privacy waiver form used by ACC for 1.7 million claims a year is unlawful, a lawyer says.

ACC gives details of tens of thousands of people's injury claims every year to recruitment agencies and prospective employers.

Andy Coulson has told a jury he was not part of any agreement made inside the News of the World to hack the phone of murdered English schoolgirl Milly Dowler.

Cyber-criminals are planning their "hits" more carefully and the attacks are lasting longer than ever.

Should employers keep unsuccessful job candidates' details private? Can they? A recent case highlighted by the Herald might have left doubt in some minds.