CONTENTS
(1) FROM STATSCAN WITNESS AT MY TRIAL REGARDING GPS LOCATOR INFORMATION FOR CENSUS FILES.
(2) DOOR-TO-DOOR COLLECTION OF CENSUS DATA FROM IBM AND THE HOLOCAUST.
This is further to 2009-01 The IBM/Lockheed Martin Census: GPSing Your Home (U.S.). And what to do about it.
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(1) FROM STATSCAN WITNESS AT MY TRIAL REGARDING GPS LOCATOR INFORMATION FOR CENSUS FILES.
At my trial date on January 11,
Anil Arora testified for the prosecution (“the Crown”) on behalf of Statistics Canada. He is Assistant Chief Statistician, the equivalent of an “assistant deputy minister”. He described in detail his duties at StatsCan at the time of the 2006 census and today. He is well-equipped to answer questions on behalf of StatsCan. He is the person who phoned me from StatsCan in 2006. We had a lengthy discussion in which he told me why I should fill in my census form. He did not actually respond to the reasons I gave him for non-compliance. I taped the conversation.
Anil Arora is heavily involved in implementation of censuses (2006, 2011) and in planning of the 2016 census.
He is generally evasive and very difficult to pin down. He also lies under oath, for example regarding the number of Canadians who did not comply with the 2006 census.
During his presentation of evidence I jotted down actual words and phrases made by Anil Arora:
“Every single Canadian has to be counted. It starts off with the dwelling. It starts with a listing exercise down to the block level. Building to building. Confirm every building. Maps and locations.”
During cross-examination I asked further, to determine whether the same was intended in Canada as in the U.S. because the wording is almost the same as is being used in the U.S.
I asked “Does StatsCan plan to use hand-held computers for enumerators with GPS coordinate-recording capability for each household?”.
He says this is not in the plans.
(Poorly-worded question. I am not good at cross-examination!)
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(2) DOOR-TO-DOOR COLLECTION OF CENSUS DATA, FROM IBM AND THE HOLOCAUST.
In his book, (hyper link) Edwin Black describes the warehouse-size buildings where row-on-row of mostly-women sat working at card-punch machines.
Meanwhile, armies of census workers were going door-to-door, obtaining ever more and more information to bring back to the card-punch operators. It was a massive undertaking. Mechanized sorting of census data encoded in columns on IBM’s punch cards and hollerith machines is what enabled the Nazis to exterminate members of selected population segments.