Booting Up: FAA Might Finally Let You Text During Takeoffs and Landings

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Us on a plane.
Us on a plane.

Oops! According to leaked documents, the U.S. government’s NSA program is keeping “inadvertently acquired” data on us for years.[Verge]

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Booting Up: FAA Might Finally Let You Text During Takeoffs and Landings