On: Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau

[tw04]

No, it gives them data to attack specific groups of people that were previously anonymized. The two options are less granular data, or data that can be abused.

There is no question the end goal is data that can be abused, and anyone left who would protest their actions will be fired and replaced with more sycophants.

[ajmurmann → tw04]

That's assuming that this undermining of trust won't result in reduced willingness to share accurate data.

[wahnfrieden → ajmurmann]

Next they will make it a felony to share inaccurate data and use it as justification to send to camps when raiding

[AlotOfReading → wahnfrieden]

It's already a federal crime to lie to the census bureau, it's just not prosecuted for discretionary reasons.