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And - Census Data HAS Been Misused Before — in WWII and After 9/11

by Anna Núñez on March 30, 2018

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* In the 1940s during World War II, government documents confirm the U.S. Census Bureau provided the U.S. Secret Service with names and address of Japanese-Americans. (The Census Bureau denied this for decades). The data, experts say, would have been useful for officials trying to find Japanese-Americans who had eluded internment. President Ford apologized in 1976 for the internment, saying the incarceration of Japanese-Americans was a “setback to fundamental American principles.”

* Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, the Census Bureau provided neighborhood data on Arab-Americans to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2002. One set of census information listed cities with more than 1,000 Arab-Americans. The second detailed set provided ZIP-code-level breakdowns of Arab-American populations, sorted by country of origin. Civil liberties group and Arab-American advocacy organizations decried the dangerous breach of public trust, reported The New York Times. The Census Bureau deputy director, Hermann Habermann, claimed the census tabulations of specialized data was legal, as long as they did not identify an individual.

https://americasvoice.org/blog/census-data-misuse/