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It's time to popularise getting people not to fill out the census. It's not your civic duty anymore. The government already has too much data, more than they
by aaron695 5y ago
It's time to popularise getting people not to fill out the census.
It's not your civic duty anymore.
The government already has too much data, more than they need.
There are already attacks because the census used differential privacy.
People don't care about your privacy. We have to learn to stop giving out our data anywhere
Here's a example of how the privacy measures weaken the data because it's now too easy to trace it to people - https://twitter.com/HistDem/status/1410682403279060993 https://twitter.com/HistDem/status/1410682403279060993
Here's the 16 states attacking your census data privacy - https://www.npr.org/2021/05/19/993247101/for-the-u-s-census-keeping-your-data-anonymous-and-useful-is-a-tricky-balance https://www.npr.org/2021/05/19/993247101/for-the-u-s-census-...
- klipt 5y agoIf you don't fill out the census your congressional representatives will be reallocated to other areas.
- aaron695 5y agoIf you are not on Facebook you will lose social contacts. But you have to make a decision, do you give out all your data or fight back. Privacy won't come for free. They don't need to do a census and they don't need most of the data on the census. Do we really think the solution to problem X is another study from a data scientist using census data. This should worry you, and it's not a solvable problem. The more anonymous the data the lesser the quality. " In a worst-case scenario, the bureau's researchers estimated, attackers with access to more commercial data could unmask the identities of as many 179 million people, or 58% of the population included in the 2010 census."