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Researchers question U.S. Census Bureau’s new approach to privacy

ASSOCIATED PRESS / JUNE 21
Commuters walk through a corridor in the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, in New York. The U.S. Census Bureau is creating tighter privacy controls in response to new fears that census questions could threaten the privacy of the people who answered them. But social scientists and others who use the agency’s numbers worry that the change will hurt the accuracy of the 2020 count.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. >> In an age of rapidly advancing computer power, the U.S. Census Bureau recently undertook an experiment to see if census answers could threaten the privacy of the people who fill out the questionnaires.