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Trump Plan to Trim Census Data

June 16, 2026
Trump Plan to Trim Census Data
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In a shocking move, the Trump administration has just dropped a bombshell on the world of data collection: a new order banning the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical "noise," or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people's privacy in their statistics.

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