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usonian

(22,796 posts)
4. FWIW
Mon Dec 1, 2025, 03:53 PM
17 hrs ago
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/about.html

Chances of the data being put to ill use?

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Data Protection and Privacy Policy
https://www.census.gov/about/policies/privacy.html
We are committed to handling your information responsibly. Your information is kept confidential. This commitment applies to the individuals, households, and businesses that answer our surveys, and to those browsing our website.
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Online Privacy Policy
Information on children's online privacy, data retention, document accessibility, info collected from e-mail and online forms, and third party websites.
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Information about the U.S. Census Bureau's privacy principles.

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Of these, I look at this, chiefly.
Under Our Privacy Principles.

Confidentiality: How do we protect your information?

In addition to removing personally identifiable information, such as names, telephone numbers, and addresses, from our data files, we use various approaches to protect your personal information; including computer technologies, statistical methodologies, and security procedures.

Our security measures ensure that only a restricted number of authorized people have access to private information and that access is only granted to conduct our work and for no other purposes. Every person who works with census confidential information collected by the Census Bureau is sworn for life to uphold the law.

Violating the confidentiality of a respondent is a federal crime with serious penalties, including a federal prison sentence of up to five years, a fine of up to $250,000, or both.

• We promise that every person with access to your information is sworn for life to protect your confidentiality.
• We promise that we will use every technology, statistical methodology, and physical security procedure at our disposal to protect your information.


What does this mean in an administration that violates the law and the constitution daily, as a matter of policy?
You tell me.

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