The De-Identification of Individuals
Several week ago, on the way to work I heard a report on the radio about a judge back east (I don't remember which state) who ruled that the part on county's marriage application asking for race information was "unconstitutional." The county tried to get that part of the application to be optional, but the judge said it needed to be completely removed from the application. I don't remember who the couple were that brought up the lawsuit, but it doesn't really matter. I've heard similar reports, where some required piece of information, usually gender-related, gets ruled "unconstitutional" but some judge (usually a liberal judge) and the city, county, or state agency, organization, or other entity has to stop gathering that information. I will agree that there have been instances where certain information has been used unconstitutionally, where a person or another group uses it inappropriately, often in some discriminatory manner. But as I l...