Anzila Wong
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 9 Jun
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Federal law requires the Census Bureau to keep people anonymous in its statistics.
For decades, one of the main ways the Bureau has done that is by adding what's known as statistical noise to make certain data fuzzy, especially data about small geographic areas and minority populations who could be easy to identify.
But the Trump administration is now banning this approach to data privacy protection.
Spokespeople for the Commerce Department, which oversees the bureau, did not immediately respond to NPR's questions about why the ban was issued.
For the 2020 census, no statistical noise was added to the state-level population numbers used to redistribute congressional seats and electoral college votes.
But last year, the bureau said it was planning to keep using this privacy protection for neighborhood-level results from the 2030 census.
Anzila Wong, NPR News.
Federal law requires the Census Bureau to keep people anonymous in its statistics.
For decades, one of the main ways the Bureau has done that is by adding what's known as statistical noise to make certain data fuzzy, especially data about small geographic areas and minority populations who could be easy to identify.
But the Trump administration is now banning this approach to data privacy protection.
Spokespeople for the Commerce Department, which oversees the bureau, did not immediately respond to NPR's questions about why the ban was issued.
For the 2020 census, no statistical noise was added to the state-level population numbers used to redistribute congressional seats and electoral college votes.
But last year, the bureau said it was planning to keep using this privacy protection for neighborhood-level results from the 2030 census.
Anzila Wong, NPR News.
So far, the executive order President Trump signed in March has not directly affected mail-in voting for this year's elections.
It calls for the U.S.
Postal Service to come up with lists of eligible voters and deliver mail-in ballots only to people on those lists.
USPS is financial support of NPR.
Mika Simmons is an attorney for Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, one of the order's challengers.
A federal judge in Boston is now weighing whether Trump's order violates the Constitution, which gives power to state legislatures and Congress, not the president, to set federal election rules.
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