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Thanks Meghan for sharing. There's a lot in Trahan's report, but the idea of "purpose-based privacy" stood out for me: "With modernized definitions in place, Congress must embed in the Privacy Act a new privacy model that segments requirements by ...
We identified the removal of sexual orientation/gender identity measures from approximately 360 different federal data collections during the past year. The majority (94%) of data elements removed from federal collections were gender identity demographic ...
From Punchbowl News: https://punchbowl.news/article/tech/dem-plan-doge/ On Tuesday, Rep. Lori Trahan (D-Mass.) is calling for a future Democratic Congress to fix a half-century-old law in a bid to update the White House's access to information in ...
Here are a few tips for responding to a Federal Register Notice (FRN), from my colleague @Beth Jarosz : Be concrete about costs and benefits . Will the change improve response rates? Better identify a population of interest? Align with international ...
The information about the changing race/ethnicity standards is provided in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of the FRN. It's only mentioned briefly: "In addition to the internet self-response option for PRCS, the proposed content for the 2027 ACS ...
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