Privacy Concerns End Canadian Census Deal
A Canadian branch of Lockheed Martin lost a national census contract with the government after concerns regarding privacy were raised. An estimated 13.6 million households in the next national census will have the option of filing census responses online. The government wanted to avoid even the perception that privacy might be threaten by participation in the census to make sure that they could maximize the number of potential respondents.
StatsCan kills census deal over privacy concerns, The Ottawa Citizen, May 09, 2004
