The post Watchdog says 2020 Census systems are riddled with security flaws appeared first on BardTech . With a census just two years away, the Census Bureau has a cybersecurity problem. That’s a key takeaway from the congressional watchdog, the Government Accountability Office, which oversees the government’s spending. In a new report published Thursday, the non-partisan agency said that the government’s Census Bureau has only a few months to fix thousands of security vulnerabilities that may put personal citizen data at risk. The census, conducted by the federal government decennially, provides the government data on the population. Ahead of the 2020 census, the Bureau began testing all 44 key systems necessary to support the new option of allowing citizens to send their responses over the internet, a scheme that will save the government billions of dollars . The two-year test, set to complete in April 2019, has found close to 3,100 security issues and weaknesses, the report ...