I am thinking that the paranoia that people are feeling over this isn't so much those issues - what could be the concern is that this information identifies them as Jehovah's Witnesses. They don't want other people/institutions or the government knowing that they are JWs.
I can understand that crow. Totally. I wouldnt want that, although faders have nothing to fear in that regard either and active witnesses dont care. Just ask them, they will self identify. But nobody has voiced that. Its literally been concerns over “data breeches” and one truly insanly remark about killing those who claim to be anointed. Its beyond paranoid. I lack words to describe how utterly stupid some of this is.... again, i want to be clear, its worth discussing the implications. The real and rational implications, at least, but crying about already public data being breeched and potential assignations of those who claim to be annointed is just ludicrous.
One comment explored the potential for wt membership to exposed as smaller than they claim. Thats something i find fascinating.