Congressional Members Assured on 2010 Census and Patriot Act
Department of Justice letters sent to leaders of the Black, Asian American, and Hispanic Congressional Caucuses sought to assure members of Congress that the confidentiality protections related to census data collection were not superseded by Patriot Act data sharing provisions. In 2004, the Electronic Privacy Information Center received documents revealing that the Department of Homeland Security had received assistance from the Census Bureau in developing a special tabulation by zip code on persons of Arab Ancestry living in the United States.
Patriot Act doesn't override confidentiality in Census, Justice Department says, by Ed O'Keefe, Washington Post Staff Writer, Friday, March 5, 2010
