The principals of two Dunedin high schools are worried the latest "babe of the day'' Facebook page could put pupils at risk from sexual predators.

Far from being alarmed, the Key Government seems set to make the work of the spies, both their own and the overseas variety, even easier, writes Brian Rudman.

The danger is that the techniques devised today by NSA data miners to track potential terrorists may tomorrow be employed by private sector, writes Gehan Gunasekara.

Information on trillions of emails, web chats and Skype conversations carried out by Americans has been harvested along with their phone records.

The Guardian reports the UK spied on its G20 partners in 2009 - tricking some delegates into using fake internet cafes so their email could be read.

In a landmark court decision, a blogger has been ordered to remove dozens of posts and comments from her website and issued with a restraining order against a lawyer she harassed on-line.

Edward Snowden had a life that superficially sounded nothing short of idyllic and for some reason, he threw it away with a few leaked documents revealing the reach of the US National Security Agency.

An email claiming to have been sent to McDonald's customers invites people to enter a fake competition to win Honda CR-Vs and Caltex petrol vouchers.

The girlfriend of an Auckland schoolboy fatally injured in an attack after rugby practice has been subjected to vicious online bullying.

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.

Have you ever wanted to lock lips with someone on the internet? Burberry has teamed up with Google to create world-first technology allowing people to pash in cyberspace.

I became aware of the social networking site ask.fm in April when a mother of a girl in my daughter’s class copied me in on a letter she’d sent to the school principal.

The rise of social media has put "conversation without speech" at the centre of millions of lives, as Tom Chatfield explains.

A prominent Australian barrister has suggested US intel leaker Edward Snowden could seek refuge in 'pleasant' NZ, joining Kim Dotcom in resisting extradition.

The United States is braced for a drawn-out effort to capture Edward Snowden.

The glamorous dancer girlfriend of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has revealed her devastation at his decision to go on the run without her.

Revelations of snooping into private data and communications on a massive scale by the Obama Administration has shed a little dayligh.

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.

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 Kingsland Business Community commissioned a film to help promote the inner Auckland area as a place to work and run a business.

More Kiwis are shopping online than ever before, with more than half of New Zealand adults contributing to $3.7 billion of internet sales last year.

So-called perishable pictures are enticing teens to share inappropriate photos of themselves in the belief the images will vanish after being viewed.

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.

Taking the time to examine your Facebook ads can make for a depressing self-analysis, says Jack Tame.

An email has been doing the rounds with a PDF claiming to be from the United States Lottery Board, in conjunction with President Barack Obama's campaign team, telling people they have won US$920,000.

New Zealand police have contacted the owners of a controversial social networking website which enables bullying and has been linked to overseas suicides.

Kiwi shoppers have the foulest mouths when rating products online, a global survey has found.

Rumour has it that the Commission will quietly ask Sky to reconsider its apparently restrictive contracts with ISPs on a mutually agreeable basis, writes Chris Barton.