Big Brother watching our lives online

Government agencies are the latest to admit hiring teams of people to trawl social networking websites to check up on and cross-reference Kiwis' personal information. We examine the extent of state-wide web monitoring of personal details and how social networks are exposing people in a whole new way.

To say that online social network membership has exploded in the past couple of years would be like saying the current world financial crisis is just a blip.