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Hollande affair: Who gets the blame?
Who's taking the brunt of the Hollande affair? In a very French twist, it looks like it's the jilted first lady - who's been hospitalised since she found out.
Is Hollande's mistress pregnant?
Julie Gayet, the actress thought to be having an affair with French President Francois Hollande, is reported to be pregnant.
Pat Pilcher: Should Xtra dump Yahoo?
How many more email outages, hacks and other screw ups need to happen before Telecom finally brings Xtra email back in-house?
FBI speaks out on Dotcom case
"Megaupload knowing created and and facilitated the distribution of stolen property." The FBI does a tell-all interview on TV's 60 Minutes.
Pat Pilcher: 4.6m phone numbers made public in Snapchat breach
As we become more and more reliant on cloud based services, privacy breaches could become increasingly commonplace, writes Pat Pilcher.
Disguised reporter tries to sneak into Schumacher's hospital room
A news reporter dressed up as a priest to attempt to gain access to Michael Schumacher’s hospital room where he is battling for his life after a skiing accident, the Formula One champion’s manager Sabine Kehm revealed.
Solid Energy drug tests nab 28 workers
Solid Energy's random drug and alcohol tests nabbed 28 offenders in the year to July, more than a third less than the previous year.
Site sparks crime fears
Privacy watchdogs are worried about intrusive new 'reverse search' websites that allow users to type in a street address and discover who lives there.
Editorial: Trust is lost when state abuses power
Editorial: If the IRD is known for unilateral and unexplained actions against its targets, Customs inhabits a peculiar twilight zone at the border.
Evidence against Dotcom
A detailed account of the evidence against Kim Dotcom has been released by the FBI to allow so-called victims of alleged piracy to claim against his seized fortune.
Customs won't front on 'brownie points'
Customs has refused to answer questions about an email asking staff to send information on Kim Dotcom to the FBI in exchange for "brownie points".
EQC slammed by govt watchdogs
A joint report by the Chief Ombudsman and the Privacy Commission is scathing of how EQC has dragged its feet over information requests from quake homeowners.
Customs returns seized property
Customs has returned all the electronic gear stripped from a backpacker at the border, saying it found nothing on his computer.
Traveller stripped of tech gear
A backpacker coming home for Christmas had every bit of electronic equipment stripped from him at the airport.
New Privacy Commissioner named
Wellington lawyer John Edwards will replace Marie Shroff as the New Zealand's third Privacy Commissioner.
Kiwis' offshore data not protected
GCSB head Ian Fletcher yesterday acknowledged there was no protection of New Zealanders' data stored in servers overseas from spy agencies.
'No particular targeting' of NZ data
The head of the GCSB spy agency Ian Fletcher has given a public assurance there was no large scale collection of New Zealanders' data by the US National Security Agency..
No GCSB metadata collection: Key
Prime Minister John Key sought an assurance from the GCSB director that the spy agency hadn't been involved in collecting metadata from Kiwis - and was given it.
Australia was ready to share metadata
Australia's eavesdropping agency was prepared to share information on individual citizens to intelligence partners.
Paul Buchanan: Snowden leaks sure to catch NZ out
It is not a matter of if but when Snowden makes damaging revelations about New Zealand's role in the 5 Eyes network, writes Paul Buchanan.
UN advances Internet privacy resolution
The UN General Assembly's human rights committee unanimously adopted a resolution sponsored by Brazil and Germany to protect the right to privacy against unlawful surveillance.