Potential privacy lapse found in Americans’ 2010 census data

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[text_block id=”a89ee81f385d2cbb4bd8fc3dd6c273d4″ content=”‹¨›p‹˜›‹¨›a href‹´›‹²›https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/potential-privacy-lapse-found-americans-2010-census-data-n972471‹²› target‹´›‹²›_blank‹²› rel‹´›‹²›noopener‹²›‹˜›NBC News has the story -‹¨›/a‹˜›‹¨›/p‹˜›‹¨›h2‹˜›‹¨›strong‹˜›The Census Bureau is now scrapping its old data shielding technique for a state-of-the-art method that one official said is far better than Google‹³›s or Apple‹³›s.‹¨›/strong‹˜›‹¨›/h2‹˜›‹¨›p‹˜›WASHINGTON — An internal team at the Census Bureau found that basic personal information collected from more than 100 million Americans during the 2010 headcount could be reconstructed from encrypted data, but with lots of mistakes, a top agency official disclosed Saturday.‹¨›/p‹˜›‹¨›p‹˜›The age, gender, location, race and ethnicity for 138 million people were potentially vulnerable. So far, however, only internal hacking teams have discovered such details at possible risk, and no outside groups are known to have grabbed data intended to remain private for 72 years, chief scientist John Abowd told a scientific conference.‹¨›/p‹˜›‹¨›p‹˜›‹¨›a href‹´›‹²›https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/potential-privacy-lapse-found-americans-2010-census-data-n972471‹²› target‹´›‹²›_blank‹²› rel‹´›‹²›noopener‹²›‹˜›NBC News has the story -‹¨›/a‹˜›‹¨›/p‹˜›‹¨›p‹˜›‹¯›nbsp;‹¨›/p‹˜›‹¨›p‹˜›#Race, #Ethnicity, #Data, #USA, #Privacy, #Census, #Age #Gender #Location #Apple, #Google, #Facebook‹¨›/p‹˜›” paragraph_whitespace=”true” text_size=”” line_height=”” text_color=”” margin=”0px 0px 15px 0px” class=”” __fw_editor_shortcodes_id=”0b78cd03b05cd38a582f612ed9ab38e9″ _fw_coder=”aggressive”][/text_block]
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