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I returned their survey with this letter.  Their only constitutional authorization is to enumerate the population once every 10 years for proper State Representation.  The rest is just the temporary 10 Census employees trying to find ways to keep their jobs by invading your privacy.  They should have been fired years ago and are a waste of taxpayer money.

To whom it may concern,

I am enclosing your American Community Survey however; I remain quite confused for the following reasons:

The Constitution clearly states in Article 1 Section 2, and nowhere else, that the Federal Government will conduct an enumeration of the population every 10 years.  The tenth Amendment states that “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”  That said, you have stated that this survey is not the 10 year enumeration and therefore, I conclude that it is outside the definition of what is allowed under the Constitution.

In addition, even though you state that any information that could identify me or my household will be confidential, you also state that you will combine my answers with answers that I have given to other agencies.  These other agencies have also stated that my information will be treated as confidential and therefore you are expressing that your concept of confidentiality seems to only apply outside the government.  This is not the true definition of confidentiality and therefore you guarantee is worthless.

In your own FAQ brochure, you state that the data are to be used to decide where to locate highways, schools, hospitals and community centers; to show a large corporation that the town has the workforce the company needs; and many other ways.  A review of the massive invasion of privacy in your questionnaire clearly shows that there is a far different purpose for this questionnaire and I choose to not participate until that purpose is made clear.  In addition, if you have ever gone through the permitting process to either build a new building or renovate an already existing one, you would know that the local government already has all the information that they need for these purposes.

You have also stated that if I choose to not respond, you will follow up with either a phone call, a visit or both.  You may consider this to be my response.  Please do not show how little concern you have for my confidentiality by proving that you already have both my name and phone number.

they call on 07/17/2016@ 1:23p.m. they are known for scam or fraud. on the do not call list. means to not call. take this number off your internal calling list. Quit calling

This is NOT a scam people!  It is the Federal Census Bureau.  They are calling for you to participate in a survey.  Once you do one they like for you to keep doing them every few months.  The info gathered is for the Consumer Price Index.  You are NOT obligated to participate but if you do it once it is very difficult to get them to stop calling you.  They use many different numbers and sometimes when the call the number shows up as "Not Available".  Just like the crazy telemarketers that call you all the time they too like to be sneaky to get you to answer the phone.  And haven't you realized yet the Do Not Call Registry was and still is a big joke?

These people keep on calling

I've received a number of these calls recently too.  Finally last night I spoke with the rep.  I told him that phone #s CAN be spoofed on CID and I had no way of verifying that he was indeed the Census Bureau.  I explained just before their last message was left on my recorder, there was a message from "The IRS giving me my last notice before legal proceedings."  Obviously I'm skeptical of anyone purporting to be from a gov't agency.  I told him that I would NOT be providing any identifying information such as name, address, etc.  and refused to confirm or deny any information that he did have.

The DNCR doesn't apply here anyway, or "haven't you realized [it] yet".

National Do Not Call Registry Q&A
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0108-national-do-not-call-registry

You can speak for your calls. Caution still does not hurt. It is plausible for frauds to spoof a real Bureau number

"had no way of verifying"

In fact, you do, which I discussed here in March.
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-520-798-4152/13#p1016251981449822720

Now that you've practiced your no-call request here, deliver it to the actual caller, which does not maintain this site or this web page. Don't cry to a non-sales caller about the DNCR.

... does not apply!!!!!! 6
... to a survey!!!!!!! 7

National Do Not Call Registry Q&A
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0108-national-do-not-call-registry

Not always. The Bureau, under constant pressure to run lean, conducts many surveys by phone.

The Bureau labor force thanks you for all the extra hours they get chasing down Census "deniers" like you. If you're so worried about wasting your tax payments, you could try for more comprehension and less resistance.

The US Constitution has stated from Day One that Congress may have the Census conducted in "such manner as they shall by Law direct". This provision does not limit the scope of the census to a decennial head count. Congress retains the power to expand that scope, and has done so from the very start in 1790. The first decennial census had multiple questions, not just one, and it was already classifying Americans by age, gender, and citizenship status.

The provision for issuing a more comprehensive survey was spearheaded by the lead architect of the US Census, James Madison. Hardly a wine party liberal, that one. Karl Rove would have voted for him, no problem. In Madison's words the Census was to be "extended so as to embrace some other objects besides the bare enumeration of the inhabitants ...." so to facilitate Congress to "make proper provision for the agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing interests ... in due proportion."

The Denier crowd is forever second-guessing the Founding Fathers, who had the foresight to use census surveys as tools for regional long range planning. With such tools, business and government need not make wasteful guesses on every broad decision, which you would be certain to protest yet more loudly. Some of the data are if fact required by Congress to assist in executing laws already in place. Isn't it you lot who bellow for "fiscally responsible" decisions? Would you rather trust them to a roulette wheel or sheep entrails?

What you prefer to deem a "massive invasion of privacy" results in data, always stripped of personal identifiers, which somebody, somewhere has to collect if a nation of millions is to be managed sanely. It's a safe bet that if you've ever used a credit card, bought a house, forwarded mail, driven a motor vehicle, posted on Facebook, used a smartphone, or performed a hundred other such activities of daily living, you have long ago given away the same data and more to corporate interests run by people you cannot elect and entire profit-hungry systems you cannot control. Until you break off to live like a hermit, you have no absolute privacy, only a compromised state.

Uniquely, the Bureau is at least forthcoming about what is collected and why. It also takes the sanctity of privileged information deadly seriously. Employees are tested and vetted, have their fingerprints filed, and swear an oath to preserve citizens' privacy. Employees who forget the PII rules lose their jobs and risk prison terms. Did Mark Zuckerberg give you the same assurance when you clicked "OK"?

As to the numbing ignorance in assuming that "local government already has all the information" needed, anyone in a research or survey position will tell you not to simply crib someone else's answers; they could be wrong or inadequate or colored somehow. You go to a primary informant. That's you, and citizens of every household.

Department of revenue

I screen the call and they hung up with no message.

If someone calls me and doesn't leave a message, I automatically assume it's a scam, telemarketer, or someone that doesn't really need to talk to me.

I already refused to answer the Census Bureau's questions.

They want to know how many times I go to the bathroom and flush the toilet every day, this lawless government of ours is out of control!

Caller  ID spoofing! Any number can looked up on the internet and fed into caller I'd so NO you can't verify the number. And the gov always says ' we don't call you unless you ask us to. That's how you spot a scam' So this is a scam by the gov's own definition. Don't answer the call or the questions.

Caller  ID spoofing! Any number can looked up on the internet and fed into caller I'd so NO you can't verify the number. And the gov always says ' we don't call you unless you ask us to. That's how you spot a scam' So this is a scam by the gov's own definition. Don't answer the call or the questions.

Caller  ID spoofing! Any number can looked up on the internet and fed into caller I'd so NO you can't verify the number. And the gov always says ' we don't call you unless you ask us to. That's how you spot a scam' So this is a scam by the gov's own definition. Don't answer the call or the questions.

Caller  ID spoofing! Any number can looked up on the internet and fed into caller I'd so NO you can't verify the number. And the gov always says ' we don't call you unless you ask us to. That's how you spot a scam' So this is a scam by the gov's own definition. Don't answer the call or the questions.

Caller  ID spoofing! Any number can looked up on the internet and fed into caller I'd so NO you can't verify the number. And the gov always says ' we don't call you unless you ask us to. That's how you spot a scam' So this is a scam by the gov's own definition. Don't answer the call or the questions.

This is the US census bureau, it's not against the law to ignore them. They are getting blocked. 5 people live here, that's all they need to know. Invasion of privacy much?! Nobody cares if you're alive anyways with the government smdh

You should realize that posting the same thing five times rapidly doesn't look good for someone complaining of any nuisance calls.

I am well aware of how spoofing works, and so is the Commerce Department. If you had followed my links like I've asked everyone, you could see how your assumptions are wrong. I also don't need a reactionary spammer telling me what calls or surveys to answer unless you want to send me a check to subsidize my phone bill.