Census Invades Your Privacy and Trespasses On Your Property

March 3rd, 2010

Byron Ruffin

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Taxpayer dollars are funding the census of 2010 in which 140,000 Census Bureau employees will be sent on a mission to collect the geographic coordinates of the front door of every home in the United States. Privacy advocates, Civil Libertarians, and many American citizens alike are growing increasingly concerned that the data collected by the 2010 census is an intrusion into Americans rights.

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Census Using GPS to Mark Front Door of Every Home in America

March 3rd, 2010

Byron Ruffin

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The Census Bureau's geography department plans to hire about 140,000 temporary workers supplied with GPS devices to mark the location of every home in the country. Robert LaMacchia, head of the Census Bureau's geography division explains: "We will actually knock on doors and look for hidden housing units," he says."We will find converted garages; from the outside, it may not look like anybody lives there."

The census is scheduled to begin early 2010. "The 2010 Census will be the largest peacetime mobilization in our nation's history," said Ralph Lee, Seattle Regional Director at the U.S Census Bureau.

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