Roads and credit cards need to be checked, but internet prying is too much, study finds.

Opponents of the Search and Surveillance bill say it overturns important aspects of civil liberties.

Two police officers were arrested on New Year's Day and charged in relation to a drinking incident.

New Zealand's privacy watchdog has joined nine other countries in complaining to Google about its Buzz service.

One new signature about every 37 seconds has been flowing into an online petition condemning global talks being held behind closed doors in Wellington.

A leaked video has shown an Indian religious leader getting a little too blissful with two shapely women.

A security worker at London's Heathrow Airport faces disciplinary action over claims he ogled a female colleague using a full-body scanner.

Don Brash says he appreciates police efforts to find who was behind his emails being given to a journalist, but accepts the culprit will probably never be found.

A stabbing victim is leaving the country and fears for his life because his attacker is about to be released from prison without having done any rehabilitation programme.

Google's new Buzz social hub features is set automatically to 'on' - and shares Gmail users' information without asking.

Bollywood movie star Shah Rukh Khan appeared yesterday as the sum of all Australian airline passengers' fears.

Privacy concerns over a new airport passenger scanning system have been heightened after airport staff copied x-rays of an international film star.