Is privacy really at the heart of mandatory census change?
Using it to justify the abolishing of a mandatory form reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept. Worse, the proposed changes to the government census do not diminish but rather increase privacy concerns.
Big policy decisions are always a balancing act. Nothing unusual, thus, when the government invokes another interest, privacy, to justify the cancellation of the mandatory long census. The increased promotion of privacy could arguably outweigh the negative impact of this decision, which critics s...
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