The Layer 8 blog over at Network World has a post indicating that the Department of Defense is closing down the TALON database in less than a month. TALON was widely criticized by privacy advocates and Congress alike for tracking ordinary citizens.
Setting aside my cynicism for a moment, this is a nice bit of news. Now the cynical person (looking at myself in the mirror) would assume this data won’t be destroyed but just go underground to a program we don’t know about yet. Nothing the Bush administration has done would dissuade me from this interpretation but since I am feeling slightly generous today, props to the DoD.
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