A growing number of Australians plan to boycott the census despite a "hand on heart'' promise their privacy won't be compromised. gettyimages-451673514_1.jpgAustralia's 10 million households are legally required to give the bureau of statistics information about their homes, religion and income in the five-yearly snapshot tonight. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has collected names and addresses since 1911 - but it will now keep data for four years instead of 18 months. This is despite census head Duncan Young promising Australians that their data will be top secret. "Rather than be a snapshot of the nation, this census will morph into a mobile CCTV that follows every Australian,'' he said.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 08, 2016 23:34 UTC