TALON (database)
TALON (Threat and Local Observation Notice) was a
US Defense Department agencies including law enforcement, intelligence, counterintelligence and security, and were analyzed by a Pentagon agency, the Counterintelligence Field Activity. CIFA had existed since 2004, and its size and budget are secret.[3]
On August 21, 2007, the US Defense Department announced that it would shut down the database, as the database had been criticized for gathering information on peace activists and other political activists who posed no credible threat, but who had been one topic of this database due to their political views.
See also
- ADVISE
- Civil liberties
- Fusion center
- Mass surveillance in the United States
- Patriot Act
- War on Terror
References
- ^ a b Defense Department to Close TALON System, by Sergeant Sara Wood, US Army, American Forces Press Service, 8/21/07.
- ^ Pentagon to Shutter Anti-Terrorism Database, npr.org
- ^ Pentagon to suspend anti-terror database, by Robert Burns, Associated Press, 8/21/07.
- ^ Criticized database to be shuttered, by Jim Mannion, Agence France Presse, 8/21/07.
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