The census use to be government run in the UK but they asked for sensitive information that could be used against you. I understand its value for planning and consider some aspects of it valid. When I was in Australia I always filled it in. At that time they didn't ask about things I find difficult now. The UK have now decided to use a US company, and a dodgy one at that, making the issue more difficult. Firstly, the data will be collected and processed by a military organisation and, secondly, US law might override UK law and require disclosure, making a mockery of the UK's data protection systems.
Best Simon On 20/03/2011 16:08, "Alan Sondheim" <[email protected]> wrote: > > In the US, the census is government run; Azure worked for them this year. > It's important for people to fill the stuff out, since funding and votes > depend on it. Oddly, othodox Jews resisted. > > - Alan > > On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Simon Biggs wrote: > >> I ignored the last one and will ignore this one. I'm a private citizen. >> >> Best >> >> Simon >> >> >> On 20/03/2011 12:50, "list|marianne" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Resistance to the decennial census is growing as a coalition of anti-war >>> groups, pacifists, religious organisations and digital activists begin >>> raising public awareness about the role of Lockheed Martin, America's >>> largest arms manufacturer. >>> >>> The company, which makes Trident nuclear missiles, cluster bombs and F-16 >>> fighter jets, won the ?150m contract to run the census on behalf of the >>> Office for National Statistics (ONS). >>> >>> "The really worrying thing is the fact that the information being collected >>> in the next census ? including new questions on sources of income and place >>> of birth [to help monitor immigration] ? would be ideal fodder for the kind >>> of anti-terror analyses being carried out by Lockheed, and could lead to a >>> faraway database identifying thousands of us as potential 'threats'." >>> >>> Lockheed Martin ? which does 80% of its work for the US defence department ? >>> assists more than two dozen American government agencies and is involved in >>> surveillance and data processing for the CIA and FBI. It has controversially >>> provided private contract interrogators to the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and >>> Guant?namo Bay in Cuba. All US-based companies are subject to the Patriot >>> Act, which allows the US government to have access to any data in the >>> company's possession. Campaigners have warned this could give the US >>> government access to detailed and personal data on the UK's entire >>> population. >>> >>> >>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/feb/19/census-boycott-lockheed-martin >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> >> >> >> Simon Biggs >> [email protected] >> http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ >> >> [email protected] >> http://www.elmcip.net/ >> http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> > > > == > email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ > webpage http://www.alansondheim.org > music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ > current text http://www.alansondheim.org/qx.txt > == > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > Simon Biggs [email protected] http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ [email protected] http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
