Differential privacy

Douglas Carrasquell of the organization Make the Road New York holds documents as he attends a training meeting about National Census in Queens on March 13, 2020 in New York City

Pandemic, privacy rules add to worries over 2020 census accuracy

August 13, 2020US politics

An accurate census requires good data in and good data out. With the 2020 census, the US has unprecedented challenges with both, from the ill-timed pandemic and from new rules designed to keep data anonymous.

Business-card advertisements for census 2020 jobs are pinned to a bulletin board

This algorithm could keep your census data ‘future-proof’

March 4, 2019Politics

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