Account Deleted By User With the 2020 census just around the corner I was doing some reading on the subject. I found that although there are laws in place to prevent personal data being released until 72 years after the data was gathered, in 1943 the census bureau released personal data it had gathered and provided that to the US military. This allowed for American citizens of Japanese descent to be locked away in camps without due process and against their will.  http://archive.fo/txfDO Anyone who questions the census and the safety of information the questionnaires gather is made to feel like a loon, but based on history, it's not unreasonable to question what our government does with our personal information.