The "data anonymization" defense is a pet peeve of mine and it's truly meaningless in this case. Stripping out explicitly identifying information from the data

The "data anonymization" defense is a pet peeve of mine and it's truly meaningless in this case. Stripping out explicitly identifying information from the data doesn't provide much privacy when the rest of the data potentially consist of things like your mom reciting her SSN to you or you discussing your doctors appointments in detail. Even if they vetted only seemingly trivial transcriptions, there is the possibility that, e.g., the computer heard "my chaise couch" when a human would clearly hear "my Chase account."