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The US Commerce Department is circulating a proposal to stop collecting census data on race and sexual orientation, and to exclude undocumented immigrants from the count for the 2030 census, which could reshape federal funding and political representation.
The Trump administration issued a directive banning modern privacy techniques like differential privacy from U.S. Census Bureau publications, threatening data accuracy and individual privacy. Cynthia Dwork and other researchers call on the scientific community to oppose the order.
The U.S. Department of Commerce has ordered a ban on noise infusion in all statistical products from the Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis, which could undermine differential privacy protections and statistical accuracy.