We have quickly from "Technocracy" to "Techno-Crazy" and the price we are paying is that there is no such thing as "Anonymized Data" . 99.98% of Americans could be re-identified from an otherwise anonymized dataset, if it included 15 demographic attributes.

In a 2000 paper, Latanya Sweeney  estimated that 87% of US citizens could be identified using just three pieces of information: their 5-digit zip code, gender, and data of birth.
The removal of names is simply not enough to properly de-identify a person. We'll need to ensure that all personally identifiable information is anonymized in order to remove the risk of re-identification of individuals

https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint/privacy/companies-anonymized-data-may-violate-gdpr-privacy-regs/d/d-id/1335361