A report from the Government Accountability Office found the Census Bureau is lagging in its staffing responsibilities and is at risk of missing several IT testing goals
According to the GAO, the Census Bureau is yet to finalize how it plans to back up the results from the online questionnaire. Officials only decided last week to use a backup system at all, and the one they are planning to implement — an in-house system called Primus — was not tested during a Census trial run conducted in Rhode Island in 2018. Meanwhile, the app that will be used by door-to-door Census takers is experiencing issues, the causes of which officials have yet to identify.
The issues the GAO highlighted seem eerily reminiscent to those that plagued the Iowa caucuses, for which the Iowa Democratic Party rushed to construct an app that then wasn’t adequately tested. A similar scramble to ensure the security and efficacy of new technology is at the heart of the GAO’s concern with the Census Bureau. “Where the risk is, is just time,” said Marinos. “We are in a pressure cooker of time to get things done.
This means the 2020 Census could be a ripe target for hackers and, wouldn’t you know it, the system’s cybersecurity isn’t quite up to snuff, either. In addition to the still-in-flux backup system, as of the end of 2019 the Census Bureau still needed to address 191 cybersecurity issues deemed “high risk” or “very high risk,” according to the GAO.
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