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How industry and government can partner for more secure systems
A top NIST official warned that industry needs to tell government how software security features are developed.
By Andrew Eversden
Justice Department shaking up legal team on census case
The change announced Sunday comes days after the department vowed to continue to try to find a legal path forward to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census.
US to pursue citizenship question on census but path unclear
Trump, speaking as he departed the White House for a weekend in New Jersey, said he might take executive action.
US still looking for way to ask about citizenship on census
The administration has faced numerous roadblocks to adding the citizenship question, including last week's Supreme Court ruling that blocked its inclusion, at least temporarily.
High court keeps citizenship question on hold in census case
The high court did not say the question could not be asked, just that the administration's current justification for adding the question was insufficient.
Supreme Court allows partisan districts, blocks census query
On the court's final day of decisions before a summer break, the justices dealt blows to efforts to combat the drawing of electoral districts for partisan gain and put a hold on a Trump administration effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
Federal judges send 2020 census lawsuit back to lower court
The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals' decision comes a day after U.S. District Judge George Hazel of Maryland suggested in an opinion that racial discrimination and partisan power plays could be the underlying motives in asking everyone in the country about citizenship status.
Q&A: Census citizenship question sparks legal debate, fears
A request from the Census Bureau to ask everyone in the country about citizenship status has set off litigation and debate and raised some important questions.
Republican redistricting expert linked to census question
The filing in Manhattan federal court said the discovery of new documents revealed that Thomas Hofeller contributed vital language to a letter used to justify adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
Accuracy at core of Supreme Court case over census question
The citizenship question has not been asked on the census form sent to every American household since 1950, and the administration’s desire to add it is now rife with political implications and partisan division.
NIST’s Ron Ross on the state of cyber: ‘We literally are hemorrhaging critical information’
And throwing money at the problem won't help, the National Institute of Standards and Technology's fellow said during an interview at the RSA Federal Summit.
By Jill Aitoro