Totally fair, but to play devil's advocate for a split second, let's not forget that the Census Dept has to make people aware of itself and get people to give their info willingly and within timelines, given no real incentive to do so.

Facebook, Amazon, and Google are collecting info that is willingly passed their way.

We are probably talking about buying data entry and management bloatware from a big mediocre enterprise contractor and then integrating the monstrosity.