Re: Data protection.
>>Great if you're a historian, economist or into family history...
Except when, for some reason, a huge American commercial enterprise [ie. Ancestry. com] seems to have somehow managed to be appointed gatekeepers of this info and are allowed to charge us for access to it —profiting from selling us back the data which our ancestors were legally obliged to provide.
[One of the reasons I refuse to fill in any of these census or census-like forms]