In an op-ed for the Ottawa Citizen, statistician and University of Waterloo professor Mu Zhu expresses concern over a proposal by Statistics Canada that would make all of its surveys — in addition to its long-form census — mandatory. “Even as an academic statistician myself,” he writes, “I am alarmed by this idea and its implications on our civil liberties.” Zhu continues: “Instead of demanding that ‘you must give us every piece of information we ask for,’ we can try to come up with better ways to make our educated guesses, for example by relying on data that people have already voluntarily supplied into the public domain,” concluding, “We can do our work without infringing upon the privacy and freedom of our fellow citizens.”
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