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Re:Data-Free Disney by NovaDudely on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @03:49PM (#34795741)
Another data point, here in Australia we do a census every 5 years. Never really heard any objection other than it is annoying.
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Re:Data-Free Disney by snapcaster on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @04:02PM (#34795949)
Germany has a very unique history when it comes to how records of their population were used...
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Re:Data-Free Disney by chaostheory on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @06:23PM (#34797700)
Not totally unique. The US used their census for Japanese internment camps.
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Re:Data-Free Disney by FroshKiller on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @06:52AM (#34802609)
And it was American innovation that made the use of that census data possible for both countries thanks to Herman Hollerith's punch cards & tabulators and Thomas Watson's greed leading IBM to furnish the Nazis with that technology.
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