A tweet has been doing the rounds in the past few days, with this link. The pdf is done in the style of the 2011 Census, asking questions about the involvement of Lockheed Martin in the collection and processing of the information. Many people, including members of civil rights groups and faith communities, are concerned about the fact that the contract for the Census has been awarded to the world's second-biggest weapons manufacturer and an American company to boot, which has identified "intelligence and surveillance" as their biggest growing activity. Many people don't want to give information about themselves and their family to such an organisation, for understandable reasons. This is probably the change between the last Census and this one: the increased unease about what will be done with the information, who will be looking at it and why. Rather than being seen as active citizens playing their part in helping government make forward planning for our collective future, it's being seen as an unwanted and unwelcome intrusion on personal privacy.
If you don't know about Lockheed Martin's involvement, check out the link below. I'm posting this entry - and the link - as part of the ongoing debate about the Census, which I've covered from several angles in this blog.
Whoever put this together has done a nice job of parodying the style of the 2011 Census: pity they couldn't spell "supplementary" though (unless that's a clever sign, inserted to alert the reader to the spoof nature of it).
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