Census Data Not So Confidential After All: Newsroom: The Ind



Information provided to the Census can be used against you. The most recent examples occurred in 2002 and 2003, when the Census Bureau turned over information it had collected about Arab-Americans to Homeland Security.

…While reassurances are repeated that the data is held under the strictest security, and will only be used for innocuous projects like government programs and solutions to our problems, do we really want academics to social engineer policy solutions based on sensitive personal data? After all, they may turn out to be no more desirable than the solutions provided by government programs like internment and renditioning. Without the protections afforded by a right to privacy, there s little chance of escaping a political will to enforce discriminatory policies….

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Census Data Not So Confidential After All: Newsroom: The Ind

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