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Re:Why the 2020 census has 9 fake people in a single house by lupire on Friday March 11, 2022 @11:33AM (#30642036)
While selectively accusing Republican governments of being criminal racists, you are ignoring the opposition to DP from Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund ("Voting Rights Act and its enforcement could be adversely affected by differential privacy"), and Native American Rights Fund

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/19/993247101/for-the-u-s-census-...

Re:Why the 2020 census has 9 fake people in a single house by drfuchs on Friday March 11, 2022 @11:50AM (#30642278)
Yes, minority groups certainly have valid concerns, which of course can be addressed.

But what is your alternate explanation of how this particular group of Attorneys General happen to have been the ones to sue? In their ruling, the (Republican) judges clearly stated that they saw no other cogent motivation. I'm not aware of any other proposed explanation from any quarters. So, seriously, what do you think it might have been instead?

Re:Why the 2020 census has 9 fake people in a single house by drfuchs on Friday March 11, 2022 @02:54PM (#30645200)
Correction for posterity: "In their ruling and in the trial transcripts..."

For instance, in the transcript, check out the part where (Trump-appointee) Judge Newsom wonders "And you've got the Pennsylvania Republicans on your side and the attorneys general -- overwhelmingly Republican attorneys general on your side. I'm just trying to figure out kind of what to make of any of that." What do you think of the (non-)reply? If you could give your own reply to cast things in the best possible light, what would you say?

By the way, the transcripts also show that Judge Newsom (and the others) fully grasped that the choice isn't between "Beautiful, Pure, Unperturbed Data vs. Noisy Data" but rather between "Data that has been fuzzed via a Swapping technique that the Census Bureau had been using for decades but is now known to be unsuitable going forward, vs. Data that's fuzzed using Differential Privacy."