Journalistic ethics and the law of privacy are fantasies as media standards drop fast.

Telstra resets passwords, scrambles to reconnect services.

Facebook's new automatic settings are not concerned with niceties such as intention.

In the wake of the UK phone hacking scandal, Australians are set to win the right to sue for serious breaches of privacy.

If the Queensland Privacy Commissioner has learned one thing, it's to be more careful with her own private details.

Queensland private sector employers can spy on their workers unfettered due to weak privacy laws.

Translink handed over commuters' travel records without ensuring police needed information.

Police face changes to the way they access commuter travel records following Privacy Commissioner investigation.

Boat owners say their fair rights to privacy are being trodden on by over-zealous Australian authorities.

Are we heading for a 1984-style surveillance state? Privacy defender has her say.

TransLink must be upfront about police using travel data: privacy commissioner.

Privacy Commissioner embarrasses Stephen Conroy by playing down seriousness of Wi-Fi spying bungle.

'Outrageous breach of privacy' as a Qld hospital leaves patients' medical records in front of a local business.

Google Australia will today be sent a "please explain" letter from two local privacy organisations demanding to know why the company has been collecting personal Wi-Fi network data from Australian homes alongside the images it takes with its Street View cameras.

British picture agency apologises and pays out to Kate Middleton for invading her privacy during a family holiday.