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#Adoption Agency Data Exposure Revealed Information About Children and Parents

A trove of 1.1 million records left accessible on the open web shows how much sensitive information can be created—and made vulnerable—during the adoption process.
#privacy #leak

wired.com/story/adoption-agenc

WIRED · Adoption Agency Data Exposure Revealed Information About Children and ParentsBy Lily Hay Newman

"When I went to their house to meet the cats, the couple surprised me with some big news. I could take both of the kittens if I wanted. Two? I'm scared about being able to handle one. That's double the poop to scoop"

k99.com/colorado-cat-kerri/?ut

K99 - Northern Colorado’s New CountryColorado, Saving These Two Kittens Saved MeCat people, unite! Celebrate National Kitten Day by sharing your fur babies with us.

Had a visitor today. Bartas is looking for a new home and we've done our best to convice him and his current owner that it should be here.

He's a very curious guy, friendly, well behaved, although a little bit on the nervous side.

Was sniffing around our place with great interest, which is no surprise with all the old and new smells and creatures everywhere.

Now we await what they decide.

#Dog#Adoption#Husky

If you're not a fan of capitalism...

If you're outraged by the separation of immigrant families...

Are you also speaking up about the adoption industry that commodifies children and transfers them primarily from women without means to wealthier families?

If you understand the problems associated with international and transracial adoption, do you extend your concern to transferring children between families for reasons of social status and class ("opportunity")?

Did you know that the vast majority of women denied abortions choose to parent their "unwanted" children rather than transferring those children to other families?

If you still think adoption is a good "solution" to the problem of "unwanted pregnancies" (aka lack of financial resources and social safety net, primarily), it's time to update your understanding.

Adoption’s warm, fuzzy reputation doesn’t hold up to reality

archive.ph/NCMS6

Father’s Day is being celebrated across much of the world today.

@foodandwine shares these great recipes to whip up for dad:

flip.it/7lg3_w

@NationalGeographic put together this amazing slide show of animal dads:

flip.it/OYEhdx

And four years ago, the @newyorktimes
published this equally heartwarming and heartbreaking story about a man with cancer who found his biological father just days before dying. (Article may be paywalled)

flip.it/cJSGu6

Food & WineOur 27 Best Father's Day Recipes to Celebrate DadThese Father's Day menu ideas include juicy burgers, seafood, grilled delights, sweet treats, and more. These are our favorite Father's Day recipes to celebrate the dads and father figures in your life.

Halifax couple desperately trying to adopt 3 children from Lebanon against a ticking clock
Victoria Joumaa says she has spent five years trying to adopt her three biological cousins and bring them from Lebanon to Canada. Now time is running out: two of the children will be forced to leave their orphanage at the end of June.
#adoption #family #law #time #Lebanon #Canada
cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia

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How much of the discussion on fedi is "Evil #BigTech! DON'T USE! Here is FOSS FooBar alternatlve".

But that alternative doesn't manage to gain a significant #adoption and foothold to even start to compete with said Big Tech. What I miss overall is discussions on how to make #FOSS competitive.

Most of the #discussions that reaches my timeline is "Nice idea, this is how you might do tech detail XYZ" and then the talk continues on libraries and frameworks and whether #Golang or #Rust is better..