For immigrants, IDs prove to be a barrier to a dose of protection Akilah Johnson Ronilda Oliveira, 53, receives her first dose of the coronavirus vaccine at Boston s Brazilian Worker Center, where hundreds of immigrants have come for a shot of protection. (Sophie Park for The Washington Post) BOSTON The line started outside, on a street usually teeming with people waiting to enter college bars, and snaked up the stairs of an old firehouse to the Brazilian Worker Center, where shots of the coronavirus vaccine were being administered on this cold New England spring morning. Finally, it was Maria Sousa’s turn. She had been waiting for more than an hour with her husband and daughter when a center volunteer greeted them in Portuguese and guided them to the registration desk, where they presented their identification Brazilian passports.
For immigrants, IDs prove to be a barrier to a dose of protection
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Liberalism s Zero-Sum Racial Spoils System
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER
Associated Press
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on Wednesday defended a controversial privacy technique being used by the U.S. Census Bureau in the 2020 census, a method the agency promised would only make small changes to actual numbers in counts of racial and ethnic groups.
The technique called âdifferential privacy adds mathematical ânoise,â or errors, to the data to obscure any given individualâs identity while still providing statistically valid information.
Bureau officials say the change is needed to prevent data miners from matching individuals to confidential details that have been rendered anonymous in the massive data release expected as early as August. It will be applied to race, age and other demographic information in geographic areas within each state.