Editorial: Privacy vs. accuracy? Questions swirl around 2020 census

……So there’s the tension — privacy protection versus census data accuracy. The Census Bureau is expected later this month to release a new trial run using differential privacy that you can be sure will be combed over by advocates and others concerned with achieving both an accurate census and protecting the privacy of the respondents.

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