According to a top agency official at the U.S. Census Bureau, an internal team found that basic personal information for 138 million Americans could be reconstructed from encrypted 2010 census data, NBC News reports. Compromised data included age, gender, location, race and ethnicity but was only discovered through internal hacking efforts. The discovery has raised concern over the Trump administration’s attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The agency plans to use a form of differential privacy in the upcoming census.
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