As an actual Census worker(yes, Ma. I finally got a job), albeit a mere courier, I find many of these comments quite amusing. So here's what I tell people about the Census.
1. It was first commissioned in 1790 by that Revolutionary Terrorist, George Wahington.
2. All Census information is held by the Census Bureau of the Dept. of Commerce. All of that sensitive personal information y'all are worried about revealing the National Security Agency is already hoovering up through the Warrantless Wiretap Program and National Security Letters. This was implemented by the:
a.Patriot Act
b.Telecommunications Immunity Bill
c.Communications Act of 1996
Why do you think the NSA is building those two new huge data storage facilities in Utah and Texas? The supercomputers at Fort Meade are running out of storage space. You guys should REALLY take a look at:
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com
There's a lot of great information there about the bipartisan National Security Surveillance State and how it ties in to the Worldwide Surveillance Society as a whole.
So, to put things in a nutshell,
Privacy of Communications is DEAD.
Everything we write, talk about, websurf or anything else on the domestic telecommunications infrastructure is going to the NSA & Mossad. I include the Mossad because both the manufacturers of the Semantic Traffic Analyzers used BY the NSA are Israeli-owned companies with links to the aforementioned Mossad. James Bamford's interview at BFP has a nifty little story about a similar system installed in Australia where the Aussies couldn't get the info they wanted on a specific individual so they contacted the Narus company in Israel who passed that info back to the Australian government from Israel.
But what do I know? I only worked in Broadband Telecommunications Operations for 30 years.