The Republican Plan to Reform the Census Could Put Everyone’s Privacy at Risk

The Republican Plan to Reform the Census Could Put Everyone’s Privacy at Risk

A little-known algorithmic process called “differential privacy” helps keep census data anonymous. Conservatives want it gone—possibly putting immigrants at further risk.

The Republican Plan to Reform the Census Could Put Everyone’s Privacy at Risk - WorldNL Magazine

President Donald Trump and the Republican Party have spent the better part of the president’s second term radically reshaping the federal government. But in recent weeks, the GOP has set its sights on taking another run at an old target: the US census.Since the first Trump administration, the right has sought to add a question to the census that captures a respondent’s immigration status and to exclude noncitizens from the tallies that determine…