One version of TurboTax a couple of years ago transmitted every entry I did on my machine in this software package to some outside entity.
Add a number - firewall comes up asking for permission to connect. Move around - same thing.
May have been some debugging feature but who the hell needs to see every move I do in some debug-log, if this was the case.

Do I trust the Co? Sure no, their attempts to tie you in and milk $$'s out of you are disgusting.

Just another veil of secrecy, big company internals - The NSA++ sub-state in a state supposedly in cahoots with big companies - or the other way around..

No one on the outside is getting the real story.
The defense against anything is common: First total denial, then admit something and at the same time issue counter-info. What was it? Ah, it defends against terrorism, how many actual cases - 57 as one number came out. The number is not getting into many people's brains, the terrorism-defense does, world OK again...

Anything really changing, with this paid puppet-government?

"would earmark a classified sum of money" .... again this classified BS - what do they have to hide? The crap tax-$$'s burnt on all this pipe dream?

This whole pandora box gets never cleaned out. Needs the method how the gordian knot was solved...

of the people implementing this kind of restriction on kids. Maybe they are passing on their own childhood traumatizition?

Heee touched me!! No, I did not! Yes you did! No..... Yes ... N

In Switzerland - IE dominates, reasons unknown 2 me...

Biomass of humans on this planet is neglectible despite Fox news products.

What has NSA _not_ done?
Anything thinkable and unthinkable they have done, continue doing, will do and have or will get the capability to do.

http://www.thensavideo.com/.

Isn't there something like ad-blackout happening?
Like ads showing in whatever fashion trying to catch attention and the saturation with ads is to high that any impulse intended to be created by ads is suppressed and blocked out.

Maybe it's just me if one tries to influence, I resist and the more they try, the more I get turned off. It's just no fun getting "guided" all the time by some folks trying hard to manipulate.

Can the manufacturer be made liable for damages? Not sure what the are smoking there...

BS - I always use noise cancelling headphones to reduce starting noise in economy class where the noise is excruciable and they are electronic. I can hear surrounding regular sounds - announcements for example, just fine with it.

This was a single time incident when this happened with CAN Airline - never happened before and again.

In this specal case, I used earplugs which I have as backup when batteries run out.

This was clearly based on crankiness of this lady.

And - just for info - using noise reduction in airplanes significantly reduces flight stress and on longer long distance flights across several time zones helps with jetlag.

Cranky stewardesses are the rulers: "take that headphone off!", me: "it's not connected", she, with stern voice: "take it off now!".

Sure nullyfies any FAA relaxation.

In a society where a part of admininstrative power is clandestine, refusing access to information to anyone participating or affected, any facts can be claimed without much fear of recourse.
This can lead to capriciousness in decisions over people's life.

Maybe this overly restrictive behavior fear based?

The same scrutiny would get applied to NSA's escapades but they get a free ride on everything.

Fuck YOU!!!

Would not do diddly squat as history proofed.