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Since the census is now identifiable I would never answer honestly anyway, and would encourage any member of a politically precarious minority to falisfy their census data if it did ask.
census is now identifiable
Uh, no it isn't?
would encourage any member of a politically precarious minority to falisfy their census data
This is a terrible idea. If you were somewhere that you might actually face legal repercussions for being gay that would be reasonable...though those places are also not likely to ask for your sexuality on the census. But in Australia, not being honest is a fantastic way to see that your demographic gets ignored.
census is now identifiable
Uh, no it isn’t?
Oh, my sweet summer child...
I was pissed at the last one because it felt like an invasion of privacy lol.
Idk what the current status is but last I checked they literally keep addresses and names in a Totally Secure (TM) government database and just like hash (or some other "one way" crypto encoding) them when distributing subsets to researchers. Have they actually changed that policy of direct retention?
Forget name/address. The info in the other questions is what was pissing me off. That's enough to ID you.
It's like browser fingerprinting
true that.
you should read research on deanonymising data. The government lies, they literally introduced a bill in 2018 trying to bam cryptography because some researchers embarrassed them by proving you could re-identity census data.
Idk what planet you live on but the nsw government literally does eugenics on trans people. I had to get steralised to not have all my ID out me all the time and get the right title etc.
You are young, things can change fast the pendulum of tolerance swings back and forth, Whig history is demonstrably false.
here is a reasonable summary of concerns https://www.salingerprivacy.com.au/2016/03/17/census-no-longer-anonymous/
and here is recent research on deanoning datasets https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10933-3
edit: also defending the census because of overreliance on it is stupid. We should not make important decisions on unverifiable data. If not being on the census means no funding then the funding model is broken, not the person who doesn't want to be recorded. Censuses have historically been used for extremely bad shit, Australia is a nation founded in exploitation and genocide. There are extremely good reasons why certain people might lie or hide.
Why it should be there? I guess at this time no one give a f%&k about someones sexual orientation in Australia. And I fail to see any reason to register it for healthcare/taxation or similar purpose. IMHO questions of nationality should go away too.
No-one really cares about the individuals, its moreso about the aggregate. I think it would be interesting from a public policy perspective to know how many LGBTQI+ people live in Australia, Capital Cities, "The Regions", areas of low/high socioeconomic standing. We could actually have informed debate about these issues. This is also a problem with nationality as well, I'm not bothered if my neighbour is a homosexual transgender from China, but if we find a majority of immigrants from a certain country or region are living in an area of low socioeconomic standing maybe that group are disadvantaged in some way. Maybe they need better language support or help finding a job. At the end of the day it's to give governments the opportunity to govern Australia in a way that is effective, or they can completely ignore it like the Liberals seem to.