Census also will team with a certificate authority to authenticate the Census Web site so that citizens know they are connected to the legitimate Census site and not another site designed to mimic it, he said.

CNN: Census Bureau will allow millions of citizens to file census forms online

Another exciting open data announcement came from the U.S. Census Bureau which updated its popular QuickFacts site with the new American Community Survey statistics (about 11 billion individual estimates), providing access to information about a town, county or state.

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