Data Protection and Privacy Program

Census Bureau Adopts Cutting Edge Privacy Protections for 2020 Census

The Census Bureau takes seriously its legal and professional obligation to safeguard the information it gathers from the public.

Census Bureau Continues to Boost Data Safeguards

We are working diligently to keep respondent data strictly confidential by implementing differential privacy for our 2020 Census data products.

Challenges Facing the Disclosure Review Board

Scientists from the Census Bureau describe the importance of research in survey design, methodology, modeling, record linkage, confidentiality protection, etc.

Disclosure Avoidance and the 2018 Census Test: Release of the Source Code

The 2020 Census marks the first time that any federal government statistical agency applied the rigorous rule of differential privacy.

Protecting the Confidentiality of America’s Statistics: Adopting Modern Disclosure Avoidance Methods at the Census Bureau

The U.S. Census Bureau’s commitment to data stewardship—protecting respondent privacy and confidentiality at every stage of the data lifecyle—is grounded in law that is straightforward, robust, and strong.

Protecting the Confidentiality of America’s Statistics: Ensuring Confidentiality and Fitness-for-Use

In my last blog, I described the Census Bureau’s work to modernize how we protect respondent data in the statistics we publish.

The Balancing Act of Producing Accurate and Confidential Statistics

Several months ago, Dr. John Abowd, our chief scientist at the Census Bureau, blogged about the need for disclosure avoidance measures and the considerations that went into our decision to implement differential privacy.