And they would like your TV habits! (Score 1)

Even more scary - if you read the enclosure that's with the scanner. They encourage you to connect your TV audio out to your sound card input, and claim that their s/w will automatically cause your browser to track your tv viewing or some such. What if you just have a mic plugged in and the TV on? A quote - ":C.R.Q. (tm) software instantly links TV programming to your PC, and lets you get information on the web you didn't even know existed". I might suggest the following addition - " . . . and allows us to gather information that you don't even suspect we're collecting".