Not sure if I'm missing something here, but that scans ports on the localhost, it is not a port scan of your entire network. While that's still crazy and not something you want, it's not quite what you initially said, and I don't believe they'd be able to scan outside of your machine
Websites you visit can port scan your entire network bypassing most firewall rules and NAT
Wut?
will no longer have to report as much detailed, public crash information to the federal government
I feel like this is more incentive not to purchase one, than to purchase one