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Justice served to privacy- 2020 census

On Jan 23rd,2020, president Joe Biden ordered the U.S. census bureau to not to include any information related to citizenship data or immigration status of U.S. residents. As a reaction to this order, the census has decided to abandon the process of collecting citizenship data at the city/block level.


It was in 2019 when former president Donald Trump ordered the U.S. census bureau to gather the citizenship status data of every resident of U.S. , without asking them. Which means that the census would collect the citizenship data from the federal and state government. There was mass demonstration against this order as a result on Jan 27,2019, The supreme Court of U.S. said this process would put a question on privacy and hence Trump administration should stop this. Everyone Called it as a ' victory of democracy' but even after receiving orders from The SC, Trump asked the census bureau to collect the citizenship data in any way possible. U.S. census bureau never wanted to do this but due to orders from higher authority they had to do this. There was always a fear of data getting hacked, for this the census bureau developed a strategy in order to protect the data which is called the differential policy. In this method the data would be concealed with a synthetic copy of data which makes the data safe from any hacker But In July, 2019 this order proved as a failed attempt. Census bureau faced tremendous difficulties in collecting the data at such a fine level. As per Trump’s administration the sole purpose of gathering this data was to get complete and reliable information on count of non U.S. citizens which would then be used to draw voting districts and the data will be kept secret. But many critics, civil rights organizations and legal scholars believed that Trump would provide this information to U.S. immigration and custom enforcement authorities and this can posses a threat to the privacy of U.S. residents. Further more this data could be used to draw boundaries for state legislature and congressional district. Doing so would take away the power from metropolitan area and hand it over to rural areas which may lead to some serious conflicts.


Almost after an year, the justice has been served. President Joe Biden has abandoned this process of collecting citizenship data. Now this is truly “ victory of democracy”


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