Posted by Orin Kerr:
Update on NYT Privacy Story:
On Tuesday, I wrote a [1]post about the questionable New York Times
privacy story from July 30th involving the disclosure of Census Bureau
information to the Department of Homeland Security. As I noted then,
the story oddly did not mention the fact that all of the information
disclosed was already publicly available from the Census Bureau
website.
I e-mailed my post to the Times Public Editor, [2]Daniel Okrent,
and received a call yesterday from the author of the Times story,
Lynette Clemetson. Lynette informed me that her original version of
the story included a paragraph on the kind of information the Census
Bureau collects; the original version noted that all of the
information given to the Homeland Security was publicly available.
Unfortunately, however, a copy editor in New York needed to cut down
the story (apparently for space reasons), and took that paragraph out.
As a result, the story went to press missing the part about the
information being publicly available.
The Times has another story on the disclosure today, available
[3]here. Today's story clearly states that the information was
publicly available.
References
1. http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2004_08_07.shtml#1092170618
2.
http://forums.nytimes.com/top/opinion/readersopinions/forums/thepubliceditor/danielokrent/
3. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/13/politics/13census.html
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