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If you are not on Facebook you will lose social contacts.

But you have to make a decision, do you give out all your data or fight back. Privacy won't come for free.

They don't need to do a census and they don't need most of the data on the census. Do we really think the solution to problem X is another study from a data scientist using census data.

This should worry you, and it's not a solvable problem. The more anonymous the data the lesser the quality.

" In a worst-case scenario, the bureau's researchers estimated, attackers with access to more commercial data could unmask the identities of as many 179 million people, or 58% of the population included in the 2010 census."



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