Ever wanted to secretly record your workmates to see what they say behind your back?

Yahoo last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails.

Yahoo should face an investigation into whether it properly disclosed a massive data breach, Virginia Senator Mark Warner says.

Police investigating claims that Pippa Middleton's iCloud account was hacked have arrested a 35-year-old man in Northamptonshire, Scotland Yard has said.

MasterCard refuses to say how many people were affected by the error, which resulted in some customers being charged more than once for a single purchase.

COMMENT: Although it may be an improvement on earlier legislation governing spying the bill still contains many flaws.

COMMENT: Huge number of hacks mean your supposedly secure credentials are easy for anyone to find - and use.

Tim Cook discusses the right to privacy, something he considers a civil liberty and a core value of Apple as a company.

Friends, family, colleagues, colleagues' family members - nosy nurse looked at their medical notes.

A new kind of army, of private cyberdefense contractors, is stepping up and gaining power in the wake of hacks such as the one on the Democratic National Committee.

COMMENT: Expect to see more politically motivated hacks and leaks that aim to influence politics in New Zealand, writes Juha Saarinen.

COMMENT: Why not take a leaf out of sales systems geeks' Vend's book?

Playboy model Dani Mathers has received massive backlash for posting a photo of a naked woman in the shower of a gym to Snapchat

A court has overturned a decision saying it must hand over messages of a suspected drug trafficker.

Pokemon Go has raised security concerns after the app accessed users' personal information.

As millions of people rush to join Pokémon Go, questions are being raised over how secure the app is.

Facebook plans to roll out secret conversations protected by end-to-end encryption to more users later this summer.

The internet has not evolved in the way it had been envisioned.

Despite 3 million Britons buying a wearable device in 2015, many are not willing to use them at work, according to new research from PwC.

Transport Minister Simon Bridges says road tolling could be done by GPS satellite, as opposed to toll gantries or cameras.

Nearly half of female students spoken to in a new survey said they had had an embarrassing photo put online against their will last year.

Tech leaders are meeting in San Francisco to discuss making the Web a more decentralised, secure, and less censored place.

What's the first thing you would do if you lost your smartphone?

We're beginning to see the long-term impact of Apple vs FBI.

If users want their messages to be encrypted, they will have to opt in.

Is it possible for a connected society to ever be fully secure?

Ahead of Privacy Week, science reporter Jamie Morton finds many Kiwis now accept their personal data doesn't just belong to them.

We seldom stop to think about the personal information we are constantly transmitting to the world from the phone in our pocket.

COMMENT: Data-driven businesses are the way forward, and spying rules must be tight for others to use our services.

I decided to try a little experiment to see what would happen if I asked my cell phone provider if it would tell me if any government agencies had request access to my phone records, writes Felix Marwick.