2020 census confidential, not shared with law enforcement, says Census Bureau

ABC News ^ | Sept 17, 2019 | Hope Howard

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The 2020 census is on track, government officials told reporters on Tuesday, and they sought to reassure the American public that any information collected in the population count will never be shared with local or federal law enforcement.

In a news conference in Philadelphia tied to Constitution Day – the Constitution mandates the count be done every 10 years -- Census Bureau officials also said workers have walked some 821,000 neighborhood blocks to ensure addresses in its system are correct.

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[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I will do the same thing I did last time.

Two adult American citizens live at this address.

The rest is none of their business.

[kiryandil]

They don’t know that I’m a hard-core conservative mole. :)

[kiryandil]

Don't EVER get the ACS [American Community Survey].

That one wants to know what toothpaste you use, and how sheets of TP you use per wipe.

[Pollster1]

I hope there will be a lot of rumors and leaks before the census warning that census information on illegals could be leaked to ICE and other law enforcement.

[cgbg]

I worked for the US Census back in the day, and I agree that the managers had a top priority of keeping the data confidential.

However, there are limits to what they can do in the real world, and two examples of what they _cannot_ prevent are discussed in this thread (NSA backdoor hacks, Japanese internment data release).

Here is a little bedtime reading for you:

https://www.wired.com/2016/06/demonically-clever-backdoor-hides-inside-computer-chip/

In addition, there _cannot_ be any guarantee that a future maniacal leftist government will not take the data and use it "for our own good". :-(

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Gotten it.

Told them exactly the same thing.

They actually threatened me. I repeated what I had told them before. They left.

[kiryandil]

They actually threatened me.

That IS one of the options.

The people I worked for never played that particular card. I think it's a failure if they think they have to do it.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I know it is an option but it was a real stupid one to choose. I would have been happy to have made a federal case out of it.

Apparently they decided it was not worth it. I wonder if they ever have gone that far?