The Illusion of Anonymity: When AI Connects the Dots You Thought Were Safe
Anonymized data is still a story A customer log has no name. A research interview has no email address. A support transcript has placeholders where the direct identifiers used to be. Everyone relaxes. Compliance smiles politely. The spreadsheet is now “anonymous.” This is the small office ritual behind a very large assumption: if we remove direct identifiers, the remaining data becomes hard enough to link back to real people. ...