FC: House Republicans consider Census database, from NY Times

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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From: Steve Hutto <SHutto () Policy-Studies com>
To: "'declan () well com'" <declan () well com>
Subject: politech submission
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 12:21:36 -0600

Hi Declan, love the list.  Apologies if you're already tracking this...

Op-Ed from the NY Times 10/23/2000
"My Data, Mine to Keep Private" by Linda R. Monk
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/23/opinion/23MONK.html

Scary opinion about House Republicans looking at creating a "linked data
set" between Census Bureau files and the IRS and SSA.  Any meat to this one?

Excerpt:
"Under current law, census data on individuals can be used only to
benefit the Census Bureau, which has balked at turning over files
to the budget office without greater assurances of individual
privacy. However, the Congressional number crunchers are not taking
no for an answer. Republicans may tack an amendment allowing
Congress access to census data onto an appropriations bill before
Congress adjourns for the elections."




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