Despite repeated assurances from the Census Bureau, it turns out the Government has been
data-mining the household and individual data you provided to the Bureau in developing its CAPPS II airline passenger screening program.
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The NASA experiment used 5 million census records from each of two data sets it created, "one that stores household records and another that stores person records."
The Census Bureau's Web site says it protects confidentiality "through disclosure-information techniques."
However, Mr. Steinhardt, who sits on the Census Advisory Committee, said releasing information on households and individuals is "a major breach of trust."
"The advisory board specifically asked this question, whether they were providing data to any other government agency, and the answer was 'no,' " Mr. Steinhardt said. "We will have to look carefully at what they provided NASA and why."
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The Census Bureau asks very detailed and personal questions; people are willing to provide the answers only because the Bureau asserts that all records will be kept confidential for 72 years. (Even that no longer seems enough, given the increasing life span of Americans.)
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