In an age of rapidly advancing computer power, the U.S. Census Bureau recently undertook an experiment to see if census answers could threaten the privacy of the people who fill out the questionnaires. The agency went back to the last national headcount, in 2010, and reconstructed individual profiles
1 / 3Census Data PrivacyFILE - In this April 26, 2019, file photo, visitors to New York's Times Square use umbrellas to shield themselves against the rain as they walk past the Armed Forces Recruitment Center. The U.S. Census Bureau is creating tighter privacy controls in response to new fears that census questions could threaten the privacy of the people who answered them. PROVIDENCE, R.I. — In an age of rapidly advancing computer power, the U.S.
Federal law bars census officials from disclosing any individual's responses. But data-crunching computers can tease out likely identities from the broader census results when combined with other personal information. The fear is that advertisers, market researchers or anybody with know-how and curiosity could use data to reconstruct the identities of census respondents.
Historians have found evidence that census data helped identify Japanese Americans who were rounded up and confined to camps during World War II. That revelation led to an apology from then-Census Bureau Director Kenneth Prewitt in 2000. It's analogous to pixilating the data, a technique commonly used to blur certain images on television, said Michael Hawes, senior adviser for data access and privacy at the Census Bureau.
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