Every 10 years, the census allows the United States to get an accurate count of the population—but some people are afraid to respond, especially given how that information has been used in the past.
"They were able to do this very quickly," Ikeda says."And that was with the assistance of the census when that information should not have been used in this manner."Second War Powers Act
As a result of the data's release, people of Japanese ancestry—including Ikeda's parents and grandparents—were removed from their neighborhoods and put in detention centers. They were America's version of concentration camps—not death camps like Auschwitz, but places of incarceration in remote locations, ringed by barbed wire and patrolled by armed guards.The kind of data sharing that enabled the wrongful incarceration of some 120,000 people of Japanese descent is illegal today.
Michael Cook, the Chief Public Information Officer for the Census Bureau, cites the fact that the information that households provide to the census can't be shared with anyone outside of the bureau."Even everybody in the bureau can't see it," he says—just people who are actively processing the information. The data that is processed is released in an aggregate form—there's no individual identification. As Cook says,"information comes in, statistics flow out.
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