The US has a census every 10 years and that report answers a lot of questions for researchers and news outlets. It is usually far too intrusive for most of us. Do they really need to know how many bathrooms my house has? No. So, does anyone think it is a good idea to allow them to do their survey responses online - to save money? No.
Talk about the mother load of data. There is not a hacker anywhere in Eastern Europe who will not be fiddling around with that system trying to extract the data. How many bathrooms are in that movie star’s house? How many people live with her? How many illegal immigrants live on the grounds? We have the locations of almost any US person all in one place, which beats Equifax. Equifax only had those with a credit history.
Databases are not safe anymore. OPM and Equifax should have taught us that part. Trying to do the same thing over, thinking the results will be different, is the definition of idiocy. Our government does not understand how to say no. These kinds of projects wing along under the radar “making progress” on security and Internet access when those two things are contradictory. The security problems have already started and they sound way too much like the ones we heard with the ObamaCare website. You can be sure there will be statements like “We have no reason to believe that data was removed from the database,” the stock response for people who don’t have enough security to make that determination.
Yes, it costs more to collect data without using the Internet. Yes, keeping the data off the Internet is harder. But, tell me why we want to prove all over again that we can’t secure data of this importance?
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