Showing posts with label Census. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Census. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Sunday, August 15, 2010
I Thought Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Made The Long Form Redundant...
...for those who want to share how much toilet paper you use, the brand of condom, how much toothpaste, etc.
George Jonas: Your data or your freedom
August 14, 2010 – 11:00 am
KRT
Jonas: "An offer of un-coerced data to a statist is like an offer of consensual sex to Jack the Ripper."
Using my first computer in 1986, I suggested it was insolent for census bureaucrats to threaten Canadians with jail unless they revealed the number of bedrooms in their homes (and within four days, at that). Every 10 years or so, I re-visited the topic, arguing that for social engineers to hitch a ride on the compulsory short census was intrusive and unnecessary.
Twenty-four years later, a government agreed: This summer, Industry Minister Tony Clement instructed StatsCan to scrap the mandatory long form and replace it with a voluntary one. Social engineers could have their data; they just couldn’t expropriate it.
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Posted in: Canada, Full Comment, Policy Tags: George Jonas, Tony Clement, census, statism, Munir Sheikh
Technology
The see-through society and the end of online privacy
If Ottawa thinks the census is invasive, what about the 64 trackers that popular websites install on visitors' computers?Tuesday, August 10, 2010
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- I lean to the right but I still have a heart and if I have a mission it is to respond to attacks on people not available to protect themselves and to point out the hypocrisy of the left at every opportunity.MY MAJOR GOAL IS HIGHLIGHT THE HYPOCRISY AND STUPIDITY OF THE LEFTISTS ON TORONTO CITY COUNCIL. Last word: In the final analysis this blog is a relief valve for my rants/raves.