The Privacy Commission has ruled that a drone did not breach a finger-pulling apartment-dweller's privacy when it flew within metres of his property.

Vulnerable university students had their privacy breached in an email asking them to rate their experiences with counselling services.

France's data privacy authority has ordered Google to extend the so-called right to be forgotten to its websites globally.

A plan to reveal the number of times agencies such as the police request and receive personal data from a range of companies has been applauded by Trade Me.

Personal details of foreign students studying in New Zealand have been leaked in a new Wikileaks dump.

Kiwis are at heightened risk of having their data leaked because of lax privacy law enforcement, a local insurance boss says.

Private medical notes about 90 patients - including details of a woman suffering mental illness after childbirth - were stolen from a social worker's car.

One of New Zealand’s most experienced private investigators offers advice on how to deal with stalkers.

In a speech to a privacy and identity conference in Wellington, Mr Dunne said it was crucial there were robust systems in place to protect the privacy.

The inquiry would study the way the GCSB chose its targets, what its decision-making process was and how it stuck to its duty to be politically neutral.

Private investigator Daniel Toresen asks, can you serve court notices via Facebook? "The rule of effective service is to bring the notice to the person's attention in an expedient manner. Facebook is now an accepted method to do just that."

A wide-ranging review into New Zealand's intelligence agencies will be headed by former Deputy Prime Minister Sir Michael Cullen and lawyer Dame Patsy Reddy.

The “fabrication” claim has been part of the Prime Minister’s standard response to revelations of activities carried out by New Zealand’s electronic eavesdropping agency.

Google logs all of your searches, analyses them, and uses them to individually personalise the search results you see.

It would be surprising if our intelligence agencies were not spying on China in some way, writes David Fisher.

The GCSB's surveillance operations in Bangladesh are among the most surprising and obscure yet revealed.

A reader writes: Can you please explain the restrictions (if any) that apply to the use of video camera drones in suburban areas?

Technology columnist Chris Barton comments on the problems with the Harmful Digital Communications Bill.

Pressure to broaden the use of identification numbers attached to preschoolers has concerned the Privacy Commissioner.

The latest Edward Snowden file spying revelations is a grievous abuse of power that should call into question that the GCSB is an agency concerned with protecting our security.

The first rule of spying is: don't get caught. Do so and there's a high risk you'll end up in a windowless underground concrete cell wondering when the goons clock on.

Yesterday Wikileaks posted a near-ready investment chapter of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) dated January 20.

An inquiry into NZ’s electronic surveillance agency has been launched, and Prime Minister John Key says he has "absolutely no concerns about it'.

Swathes of personal data are being sought regularly by police from airlines, banks, electricity companies, internet providers and phone companies without warrants.

A resigning real estate agent who changed client contact details in a company database committed "commercial sabotage", the agents' disciplinary body says.

Spying by the GCSB on those competing against Tim Groser for the World Trade Organisation's top job has appalled a former foreign affairs and trade minister.

Our spies monitored email and internet traffic about international diplomats vying for the job of director- general of the World Trade Organisation.