Census threat: $5,000 fines, page 1

Does anyone know what JIC1 JIC2 mean on the census form? It is located on last page very bottom right.

Also, I just surfed and found this about the temporary census offices setup across the US...:

gcn.com...

Harris and Unisys’ Federal Division supplied the IT infrastructure, support services, hardware and software to support the networks for the local Census offices. In addition, Harris hired subcontractor ASD to install network cabling at all the sites, according to ASD.
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www.defenseprocurementnews.com...

Unisys Awarded an Estimated $187 Million Contract to Manage and Upgrade ClearPath Mainframe Environment for U.S. Department of Defense

Unisys will also upgrade DISA’s mainframe and storage environment, including installation of a virtual tape library storage solution.

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epic.org...

Public use datasets contain 'anonymous' microdata, information on individual people and organizations where the explicit identifiers have been stripped away. Microdata can then be transferred even in blocks of just a few individuals. Under 13 USC § 9, the Census Bureau is required to make sure that the identities cannot be "reasonably deduced." Concepts of "reasonable deduction," however, are changing quickly.

Re-identification is the process of linking anonymous data to the actual identity of an individual. Carnegie Mellon Professor Latanya Sweeney has demonstrated that anonymous data sets can often be readily re-identified. In one experiment, Sweeney, using 1990 Census data, demonstrated that individuals often have demographic values that occur infrequently. Since these values occur infrequently, they allow the re-identification of individuals in putatively anonymous datasets. Sweeney found in her report Uniqueness of Simple Demographics in the U.S. Population:

...87% (216 million of 248 million) of the population in the United States had reported characteristics that likely made them unique based only on {5-digit ZIP, gender, date of birth}. About half of the U.S. population (132 million of 248 million or 53%) are likely to be uniquely identified by only {place, gender, date of birth}, where place is basically the city, town, or municipality in which the person resides. And even at the county level, {county, gender, date of birth} are likely to uniquely identify 18% of the U.S. population. In general, few characteristics are needed to uniquely identify a person.

Re-identification can also be enhanced through the use of commercially available or public records databases. Census data can be combined with other datasets in order to identify individuals. Some re-identification software is available commercially.

Re-identification is legal in the United States.

The influence of marketing associations on the development of the census cannot be ignored. In the face of growing privacy violations, lawmakers are consistently choosing to expand the level of information available from the Census Bureau. Between one or more databases, individual identity can be reconstructed within the same street block. In a group of 15 individuals, it is not difficult for a marketer to identify the one person of the characteristics listed in census information. With various computer programs that synthesize such information, an individual can re-identify any small group of people from the information provided to marketers.

* Kysar, Douglas A., Kids & Cul-De-Sacs: Census 2000 and the Reproduction of Consumer Culture, 87 Cornell L. Rev. 853 (2001).
* U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Dep't of Commerce, Charter of the Census Advisory Committee of Professional Associations (Mar. 27, 2000).
* Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Federal Register Vol. 68, No. 54, March 20, 2003.

After seeing all this info I feel confident in just paying the $100 fine.