The age of information-sharing is brilliant, as long as you have no secrets, writes Heather du Plessis-Allan.

Yes, you can have a reasonable expectation of privacy in a publicly visible place, writes privacy law expert Nicole Moreham.

Yet another guest visiting the businessman Kim Dotcom was detained by the Customs Service for hours. Welcome to New Zealand - unless you're here to see Kim Dotcom.

It's being described as a war, an arms race, an unseen struggle where the stakes are being raised and the weapons redefined each minute - the war a faceless cyber-criminal.

Sensitive health documents of four dead patients have been spilled on to a busy Auckland motorway.

Embattled internet tycoon Kim Dotcom says he is bearing the brunt of a vicious public backlash since the general election.

In a last minute year-end coda to the serpentine illegal GCSB spying saga, a political reporter has received an apology from Parliamentary Service over a breach of her privacy.

The police raids on internet mogul Kim Dotcom’s mansion were legal, the Supreme Court has ruled.

There is a lesson for us all in the continuing revelations from stolen Sony emails being splashed over worldwide media.

Hackers have left movers and shakers in Hollywood nervous. Late last month, they breached the cyber security of Sony Pictures and have since leaked a trove of internal company data and emails.

Why country's spy chiefs can no longer get away with saying "we can neither confirm or deny" to questions about espionage.

The Countering Terrorist Fighters Legislation Bill is expected to pass tonight under urgency with the support of National and Labour.

The case of Kim Dotcom has taken an extraordinary turn with the internet entrepreneur given a shot at getting back $60 million being held by authorities in Hong Kong.

Rodney Hide writes: Prime Minister John Key likes to text. So, perhaps it would help us all if Labour and the Greens drew up a list of whom the Prime Minister can and can't text?

Internet mogul Kim Dotcom says his three-year, $10m legal fight against extradition to the US has left him 'officially broke' and 'unfairly persecuted'.

Only in a topsy-turvy world would it be seen as rational to bring a posse of spies to heel by increasing their rights to snoop without a warrant, writes Brian Rudman.

A European Parliament bid for legislation splitting up Google may send a message that's too loud to ignore.

Gehan Gunasekara writes: Privacy rules are inevitably cited as an excuse when bureaucratic bungling occurs in relation to managing people and information.

It’s one of the biggest houses in the country, but the walls are closing in on Kim Dotcom as he rattles around his mansion.

The term "secretary" comes from the Latin for secret. Back in the day, a secretarius was someone who worked for someone of great importance, like a king, and was in charge of confidential information.

WhatsApp, the world's most popular instant messaging platform, has begun encrypting all its data by default.

The Waldorf Astoria sale to a Chinese buyer is likely to spark a national security review to assess potential spying risks.

Kiwis are among tens of thousands of householders worldwide whose privacy has been breached on a website featuring intercepted live feeds.