This Compendium provides an extensive overview of federal statutesgoverning wiretapping and electronic eavesdropping. Online advertisingas it relates to privacy law is examined including a detailed review of theadvertising industry in the digital age. The growing threat of at-riskcustomer financial risk is emphasized.Spyware, the not only annoying but often exceedingly dangerousinvader of computers, is the focus on one section of the Compendium.Another section deals with legal developments relating to the collection,disclosure, and confidentiality of Social Security numbers. A separatesection concerns itself with compulsory DNA collection. The Compendium is rounded out with a discussion of the ever-present threat of identity theft.