Potential privacy lapse found in Americans’ 2010 census data

The age, gender, location, race and ethnicity for 138 million people were potentially vulnerable.

So far, however, only internal hacking teams have discovered such details at possible risk, and no outside groups are known to have grabbed data intended to remain private for 72 years.

The Census Bureau is now scrapping its old data shielding technique for a state-of-the-art method that one official said is far better than Google’s or Apple’s.

Source: Potential privacy lapse found in Americans’ 2010 census data