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Confidentiality urged in U S census data safeguards
A vigilance committee reviewing the 1970 census urged the government to preserve confidentiality amid expanding data gathering. It called for an advisory privacy panel, separation of names from microfilm data, and ongoing absolute confidentiality protections, warning against releasing 1900 census records.
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