{"id":271644,"date":"2026-06-12T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/trump-privacy-restrictions-may-reduce-census-bureau-data-npr\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T18:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T22:30:13","slug":"trump-privacy-restrictions-may-reduce-census-bureau-data-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/trump-privacy-restrictions-may-reduce-census-bureau-data-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump privacy restrictions may reduce Census Bureau data : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/06\/12\/nx-s1-5855734\/census-bureau-data-differential-privacy\">Trump privacy restrictions may reduce Census Bureau data : NPR<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/06\/12\/nx-s1-5855734\/census-bureau-data-differential-privacy\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/06\/12\/nx-s1-5855734\/census-bureau-data-differential-privacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-12 18:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.npr.org\">www.npr.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical &#8220;noise,&#8221; or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people&#8217;s privacy in their statistics.<\/p>\n<p>                    Anton Petrus\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>            toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>        Anton Petrus\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>A wonky policy change by the Trump administration may spell the end of a wide swath of data from the Census Bureau, including key statistics used for redistricting, policymaking and research.<\/p>\n<p>Federal law requires the bureau to keep people anonymous in the data it produces from surveys and government records.<\/p>\n<p>But this month, the administration put out an order that many data experts say makes it harder, if not impossible, for the agency to balance protecting the confidentiality of people&#8217;s information with releasing useful data about local areas and small populations.<\/p>\n<p>The order by the Commerce Department, which oversees the bureau, bans &#8220;noise infusion.&#8221; It&#8217;s one of the main privacy protection techniques the bureau has used for decades to make certain data fuzzy \u2014 to ensure that individual people, including members of minority communities, can&#8217;t be identified.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the Trump administration&#8217;s new policy, which also applies to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, leaves both statistical agencies with two options going forward: releasing &#8220;coarsened&#8221; statistics with fewer details or not releasing some statistics at all.<\/p>\n<p>Data experts worry it could be the latter at the Census Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Neighborhood-level data is at risk. 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