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Potential privacy lapse found in Americans’ 2010 census data

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Potential privacy lapse found in Americans' 2010 census dataWASHINGTON (AP) — An internal team at the Census Bureau found that basic personal information collected from more than 100 million Americans during the 2010 head count could be reconstructed from obscured data, but with lots of mistakes, a top agency official disclosed Saturday.