Concerns are extra high because the decennial count, which kicks off in earnest next month, will be the first one conducted primarily online with respondents encouraged to submit forms over the Internet. And when responses don’t arrive online or by mail, census-takers will go out to collect them using secure smartphone apps.
What could possibly go wrong...go wrong...go wrong...go wrong???
secure smartphone apps. Where did we hear about that recently. Iowa was it?
I bet the online forms won't allow you to enter the information that they are Constitutionally allowed to ask. Instead it will likely keep on rejecting it until you buckle under and answer all the questions. Paper census for me. I can mail it in when I say they have enough info.
Gotta admit I was a little surprised when the Census recruiter noted that we're using "special" smartphones this round. When I did the pre-Census canvassing to check addresses last year, we were given touch-screen laptops that auto-connected to a government wi-fi network that allegedly had all kinds of security on it. We were told that we should use our home network only if their network failed.
Well, the pay isn't bad, and we do get mileage costs. When I was canvassing the rural areas of Napa County, I had a couple checks where the mileage pay was higher than the hourly pay.