New public data for redistricting and other uses may be reduced as Trump officials limit the ways the Census Bureau can protect people's privacy when it releases statistics.
A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical "noise," or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people's privacy in their statistics.
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From the firing of the labor statistics chief to plans for a new census, the president’s moves serve to entrench authoritarianism
The president's attempt to inject his politics into a head count that determines political power has been called a “half-baked…
The president is eliminating top government statisticians and data collection efforts he doesn’t like, raising alarms about the…
President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he wants changes to the U.S.'s well-known data collection system.
Census has historically counted all residents regardless of citizenship status, as required by the 14th amendment
A little-known algorithmic process called “differential privacy” helps keep census data anonymous. Conservatives want it gone.
