CDR: FW: House Republicans consider Census database, from NY Times

[Trei, Peter]

The last time they did this, tens of thousands of law
abiding American citizens were placed in prison camps,
for no reason other than their ethnicity.

Peter Trei

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> From: 	Declan McCullagh[SMTP:declan at well.com]
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> From: Steve Hutto <SHutto at Policy-Studies.com>
> To: "'declan at well.com'" <declan at well.com>
> Subject: politech submission
> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 12:21:36 -0600
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> Hi Declan, love the list.  Apologies if you're already tracking this...
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> 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
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> 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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