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Dalila Epperson's avatar

Add the Census Bureau to another corrupt governmental organization!

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Shy Boy's avatar

Hello Capt. K.

In 2020, I was working as a software research engineer for a firm that performs on DoD and IC agency contracts. I worked on a "differential privacy" project for Census, called the Disclosure Avoidance System, which I recognized as a plausibly deniable way to systematically skew the results.

I was not involved in the design or implementation of this system at Census. My team only did evaluation and validation of its functionality. The Bureau claims that the DAS was not applied to the apportionment counts. I do think it is part of the bigger story, though.

If you're interested, I could point out some technical aspects of the system and their consequences. My email is in my profile.

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