Paul Little: I spy with a huge global eye
I used to know someone who spent a lot of time on computers, fancied himself as a bit of a tech-head and was concerned about security.
I used to know someone who spent a lot of time on computers, fancied himself as a bit of a tech-head and was concerned about security.
Opposition leaders say New Zealand's involvement in the international "Five Eyes" spying network should be included in an inquiry into intelligence agencies.
Privacy commissioners say the public should be wary about this but most people are not, writes John Roughan. They post much more personal information about themselves on internet sites.
An ex-government employee had around 1400 'upskirt' recordings of women and schoolgirls, police say.
Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee has extended the date for submissions on the controversial GCSB spy agency bill by eight days.
A man is before the courts after allegedly making covert recordings of people in a Wellington bathroom while he worked for the Department of Internal Affairs.
Green Party co-leader Russel Norman has accused Prime Minister John Key of conspiring to establish a surveillance state in New Zealand.
The senior lawyer appointed by the Prime Minister to investigate the GCSB wrote a report which was more detailed.
A former spy boss says New Zealand is a democratic and free country because of our relationship with the United States and other large powers.
David Fisher recounts his own experiences with NZ's spy agencies and questions whether we should still have faith in them.
Child Youth and Family has launched legal action claiming a woman was trying to blackmail them after it accidentally sent her somebody else's private information.
Prime Minister John Key categorically denies that the GCSB has been circumventing New Zealand law by accessing information from an international spying network.
Privacy scholars refer to the dangers of aggregation of data and the potential this affords for profiling of individuals and for making of assumptions, writes Gehan Gunasekara.
On May 29, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told Democracy Now! that the Obama Administration's bid to convict Bradley Manning was a "show trial".
A mum will lobby NZ companies to pull their ads from a Latvia-based social networking site after her 12-year-old daughter was asked to provide explicit photos.
The top US intelligence official stressed yesterday that a previously undisclosed programme for tapping into internet usage is authorised by Congress.
Taking the time to examine your Facebook ads can make for a depressing self-analysis, says Jack Tame.
The Google Maps team won’t stop until it has every last inch of the planet stored on its servers. Would we really be so lost without them? asks Tom Chivers.
Those crazy American conspiracy theorists who live up trees with guns and drink their own pee don't seem quite so crazy any more.
Prisoners in privately run Mt Eden Corrections Facility were able to access the internet through faulty computer kiosks a security review of public sector computer systems has found.
A review of Government information systems' security found weak points in 12 agencies which have now been addressed.
John Key must directly ask Peter Dunne if he leaked the Kitteridge report on the GCSB.
A high-tech United States surveillance tool which sweeps up all communications without a warrant was sent to New Zealand for testing on the public, according to an espionage expert.
The GCSB doesn't talk about how it spies on people. If it did, Kiwis would find themselves grappling with some uncomfortable truths.