Oh great let’s see your actual proof, thank you.
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
https://www.census.gov/search-results.html?q=childbearing&pa...
Took 5 seconds to find on google. Unless you're going to move the goalposts.
This is just the non-anonymized version of the same thing. Never attribute to misdimeanor what can be attributed to negligence or stupidity in the first place.
If you e.g anonymously poll the sexual orientation of your population and condense it to down numbers, it is something completely different than having a list with who is gay.
The first gives you insight in the structure of your population and the second allows everybody to target individuals, based on something a poll found.
The Dutch listed religion in their public register (see Hollerith system) before the second world war. Guess who thankfully used that list later?
The realization what data like that allows a fascist dictatorship to do is the main reason why the Germans up to this day are extremely sceptical about any state collected data and have one of the harshest data protection laws in the world.
Equating anonymous statistics with a list of individuals is wrong. And statistics that allow you to identify individuals are unethical and potentially dangerous.
No.