pt. 2: Includes New York State Joint Legislative Committee To Study Illegal Interception of Communications reports on eavesdropping and wiretapping, Mar. 1956 (p. 267-345), and eavesdropping, wiretapping, and licensed private detectives, Mar. 1957 (p. 347-457); pt. 5: Continuation of hearings on problems arising from use of wiretapping and electronic eavesdropping devices. Appendix contains background material on wiretapping and the Bill of Rights, including Federal statutes, texts of selected Federal and state court cases, state legislative reports, and law articles on the subject.

Part 2: Includes New York State Joint Legislative Committee To Study Illegal Interception of Communications reports on eavesdropping and wiretapping, Mar. 1956 (p. 267-345), and eavesdropping, wiretapping, and licensed private detectives, Mar. 1957 (p. 347-457); part 5: Continuation of hearings on problems arising from use of wiretapping and electronic eavesdropping devices. Appendix contains background material on wiretapping and the Bill of Rights, including Federal statutes, texts of selected Federal and state court cases, state legislative reports, and law articles on the subject.

Recounts the landmark 1965 Supreme Court case that declared a new and previously unarticulated "right of privacy" and paved the way for the Roe v. Wade decision. Decades later, Griswold v. Connecticut remains extremely controversial as an example of an activist judiciary making new law rather than merely interpreting existing law.

Memorandum and annotated bibliography on problems related to individualism and human rights resulting from the creation of time-sharing computer facilities and the spread of EDP in general in the USA - lists publications on legal aspects and other aspects of the invasion of privacy through recourse to computer facilities and commenting on relevant legislation, etc.