Census Bureau Coercing Tape Recorded Interviews Without Consent

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[X180A]

You are required by law to submit to interview by a government agency that is recording the conversation. Federal law prohibits the agency from recording without your consent. Yet, if you do not participate in the interview, your file will be marked to indicate that you refused to provide the information you are required to provide. I do not believe that recorded calls will never be used for anything other than quality assurance or employee training. It seems like a way to coerce people into consenting to a recorded interview.

[doodad]

and on your permanent record!

[DManA]

Catch X180A.

[PetroniusMaximus]

Tell them to send you the questions by email.

[PetroniusMaximus]

How do they interview a deaf or mute person?

Ask for that method.

[knarf]

Thank you.

You provide evidence of proper response to an illrgal government tactic.

You are now a public servant diseminating information for the common good.

[MayfairFly]

2 questions:
Why’d you provide your phone # in your initial response?
Why’d you return the phone call?

[stylin19a]

since they can’t turn it off, they have the recording of your conversation as proof. all you have to do is try and get it.

good luck with that.

[goodwithagun]

I hope he wasn’t already on double secret probation!

[rolling_stone]

what state was this in?

[wilco200]

Why did you call back?

I haven’t picked up my phone since the mid-80s

[556x45]

You know that the party at the other end of the line was the US Census how? I wouldn’t have even called them back. If they want to know let them come out in person w/ the proper credentials. Even then...

[Genoa]

If I were you, I would call them back and submit to a recorded interview before some knucklehead filed charges against me. This stuff is very hard to undo. I believe in picking my hills to die on, so to speak. Just my $0.02.

[Pecos]

Or, simply mindless bureaucrats that see no problem with being given two conflicting orders.

[stylin19a]

calls may be recorded for quality assurance purposes

when i hear that...that is a two way consent. I tell the caller, can you hold just a second while I turn on my recording device ?

a few said ok, but most hang up....

[Carling]

Tell me you didn’t give them your SS# or bank account information???

Sounds like a scam to me.

[Adder]

Well, if it came down to it any judge worth his salt would order them to produce said tape and you would prove you were not refusing.
But I doubt it would ever come to that.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Ask them if it is OK for you to record them.

[kabumpo]

Please help me re the census — a census worker came to my home yesterday and I noticed she was filling it out IN PENCIL !!
I protested and asked her to use ink. She said that the machine can read only the lead in the pencil. I replied that it was ridiculous and dangerous to fill out an official form in pencil because then anyone could erase and change the answers. She ssid she worked for the federal gov’t and that this was the way it was.
I told her that I didn’t care and to go away and come back with a pen.
Is this nuts, or what?

[Astronaut]

Good questions. I threw away my census form and refused to answer the door when the ACORN thugs came by.