I'm pretty sure it was the USDA that lost the records in this story, not the Census Bureau.

Yes, it was the Census Bureau.

Now a proposal in Texas will collect names, addresses, DL numbers, birth dates and social security numbers in order to get a pre-paid phone. That's a disaster waiting to happen. Of course, all that information will be public records.

And I'm typically handing it to some minimum wage clerk at the neighborhood 7-Eleven.