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2020 census confidential, not shared with law enforcement, says Census Bureau
ABC News ^ | Sept 17, 2019 | Hope Howard

Posted on 09/18/2019 3:41:27 PM PDT by fwdude

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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21 posted on 09/18/2019 7:39:38 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: fwdude
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.

22 posted on 09/18/2019 7:49:14 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Human beings don't behave rationally. We rationalize our behavior.)
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To: Lurker

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


23 posted on 09/18/2019 8:48:27 PM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear; fwdude; Lurker
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.

24 posted on 09/18/2019 8:50:20 PM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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To: fwdude

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.


25 posted on 09/19/2019 12:17:32 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: kiryandil
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". :-(
26 posted on 09/19/2019 4:10:40 AM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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To: kiryandil
Gotten it.

Told them exactly the same thing.

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

27 posted on 09/19/2019 9:37:59 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Human beings don't behave rationally. We rationalize our behavior.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
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.

28 posted on 09/19/2019 6:18:46 PM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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To: kiryandil
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?

29 posted on 09/19/2019 8:59:45 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Human beings don't behave rationally. We rationalize our behavior.)
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