The U.S. Government is returning a small amount of our civil liberties to us by dismantling a database that has often been associated with monitoring regular citizens.

 Long criticized for keeping track of regular everyday citizens, the government’s anti-terror database will officially close Sept. 17.   The Threat and Local Observation Notices or TALON, was established in 2002 by then-Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz as a way to collect and evaluate information about possible threats to U.S. servicemembers and defense civilians all over the world.  Congress and others protested its apparent use as an unauthorized citizen tracking database.  The TALON system came under fire in 2005 for improperly storing information about some civilian individuals and non-government-affiliated groups on its database.

This is a good move, if "too little too late" with the other new measures coming online that will be even more egregious and draconian to the freedoms of Americans. Lets celebrate the positive and use it as a leverage point to remind our representatives that the administration needs to concentrate harder on removing other programs that overstep their bounds.

@ NetworkWorld

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