Labour leader Andrew Little met United States' intelligence chief James Clapper yesterday - on the initiative of the Prime Minister's office.

Three solutions that allow officials to gather evidence without the creation of "backdoors."

"Free society" appears twice within the report but isn't it reasonable to hope the concept might get more of a look in? Toby Manhire investigates.

Society is increasingly under surveillance - but is our added safety worth loss of privacy?

When Sir Michael Cullen was asked why he and Dame Patsy Reddy had not simply recommended a merger of the two intelligence agencies, he was blunt, writes Claire Trevett.

Tim Cook's experiences growing up as a gay youth in rural Alabama are key to understanding how he became an outspoken corporate leader.

The Constitution does not allow the government to conscript private companies to invent products or to change the products that they have invented," Apple's lawyer said.

People are a big part of the cybersecurity problem.

The Government mostly needs no warrant and companies hand over information even if not legally obligated to do so, writes Rodney Hide.

The fight between Apple and the US government comes down to a technical enigma wrapped in layers of emotional debate.

PwC Herald Talks: Apple and cyber security with MP Amy Adams and Microsoft NZ Legal Counsel, Michael Brick.

Pictures of a naked judge apparently holidaying at a nudist camp were used to promote the resort without the judge's knowledge.

More than 70 upper North Island health workers have been disciplined for snooping into patients' records in the past three years.

As toys go high-tech, hackers are zeroing in on a particularly vulnerable target - children.

There's not much point in "watch list" filled with people you don't have the capability to watch.

The leaders of the world's richest and most powerful nations have pledged for the first time not to conduct cyber economic espionage.

Snapchat updated its Terms of Service last week, and the internet freaked out a little bit.

People responsible for responding to OIA requests will need to take more care in identifying the documents that have been requested and considering their content, writes Nick Russell.

Facebook is following you around the web, writes, Megan McArdle. This bothers many people, especially since it keeps expanding the list of things it knows about you, and the ways it is willing to use that data to make money.

UK intelligence agency MI5 is paying Muslim informants for controversial short-term spying missions targeting homegrown Islamist extremists.

Millennials are most willing to gamble their privacy and security in exchange for a life online.

A British developer has come up with an ingenious way of getting rid of annoying spam emails and getting revenge on the people sending them in one fell swoop.

Last year a European court ordered the online search giant to bow to people's interest in obscurity.