Judges hear arguments over contentious Census privacy tool
KIM CHANDLER and MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press
May 3, 2021
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) The fight over whether the U.S. Census Bureau can use a controversial statistical technique to keep people s information private in the numbers used for drawing political districts on Monday went before a judicial panel that must decide if the method provides enough data accuracy.
A panel of three federal judges heard arguments on whether the method known as “differential privacy” meets the federal legal requirement for keeping private the personal information of people who participated in the 2020 census while still allowing the numbers to be sufficiently accurate for the highly partisan process of redrawing congressional and legislative districts. Differential privacy adds mathematical “noise,” or intentional errors, to the data to obscure any given individual’s identity while still providing statistica
Judges hear arguments over contentious Census privacy tool
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