No worries … it’ll be okee-dokee … now …
Are you now … or have you ever been …
in the US-of-A while being brown? ? …
Ha!! Dodged another assault on my info - somehow I never got counted in 2010 - nothing in the mail, no one coming to the door, nada. So they they missed an old white guy, regular voter, driver’s license holder, still working in those days at 70. At the time I thought, what the hell is wrong with these people; now I don’t feel so bad about it.
I do a lot of genealogical research, so i look at a lot of old census forms. There are a lot of mistakes on those forms. People’s names are mispelled, their ages are often wrong, and even the place they or their parents were born is wrong pretty often too. I think part of the mistakes are because a census taker used to come to people’s homes and ask the questions and maybe the person who answered didn’t really know the answers to some of the questions about the other people or maybe the census taker didnt understand what the person said. These mistakes are less likely to happen with the current census forms because they can be filled out over time by all household occupants, but, I would suspect that people might intentionally lie if they felt their privacy was at risk or if they were worried about immigration status. When a person can’t trust the government, they will lie to protect themselves.
Something like this is a key element in the GOP plan to weaponize the census.
Remember that the reason for adding a citizenship question is to scare minorities and non-citizens away from responding to the census, primarily over fears that they’ll have trouble with INS.
To give weight to that threat, the GOP and its wealthy owners have a strong interest in introducing evidence into the public consciousness showing that those data-privacy fears have merit.
- They will search high and low for evidence of abuses that already occur, and publicize them.
- They’ll deliberately encourage such abuses in the future.
- As the census approaches, they will suddenly make a lot of noisy attempts to access past census data in ways that harm respondents. It’s unimportant whether any of those attempts succeed because the message will be clear: responding to the census irrevocably exposes non-whites to potential harm.
Expect to see at least one non-citizen get deported or jailed based on their past census responses, prior to the 2020 census. Even better (for census suppression) would be a citizen with a “foreign-sounding name” being wrongly identified and having to endure some unpleasant hardship until the error is corrected. If it hasn’t already happened, they will make it happen.
Karma.
So, good luck, Republicans, and don’t worry.
Everything’s just been going your way lately.
I’ve worked with Cemsus provided data and with another agency that contracted with Census for custom surveys. Census is fiercely protective and takes its mandate to protect privacy very seriously. Census can’t share Census micro data — although I have no doubt the Trumo administration has made inquiries.
This issue doesn’t concern hacking of Census data. This issue concerns secondary disclosure of respondents by cross referencing published data from the Census with other available information. Census personnel monitor this very closely — as the article reflects. In this case, it’s fairly certain that the problem has arisen due to the availability of other data sources on the internet including unfortunately the data stolen in multiple credit card breaches. My experience working with Census gives me confidence they will solve the problem.
For undocumented, the problem arises if published Census information allows immigration enforcement to quickly isolate data on non-citizens in published Census data and then identify specific respondents by comparing the Census information with other published information.
One result will likely be that citizenship information — if the question is allowed (I expect it will be) — will not be included in localized published data from the Census.
Also, too, can you give us the names of other people you know who are brown?
I’m supposed to be reassured by this coming from an administration that lies top to bottom on an hourly basis…not.