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[Emergent Chaos: Musings from Adam Shostack on security, privacy, and economics] A group of Ontario adoptees has filed a human rights complaint against Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian after she lobbied the province to amend its proposed adoption disclosure law with a clause allowing people to keep their records sealed. By calling for a veto, Cavoukian "is trying to say that we do not have an automatic right to our birth registration information,'' said Wendy Rowney of the Coalition for Open Adoption Records.

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Cotse.nethttps://www.cotse.net [Cotse.net] Privacy Watch - Anonymity And Privacy: News items from around the world on privacy-related issues. Updated daily. ... Lives will be shattered if adoption bill not changed: Cavoukian ...

[Adamradwanski.com] AdamRadwanski.com: Instead, it will only allow parents and adoptees to put a "no-contact" This week, under pressure from Ontario privacy commissioner Anne Cavoukian to .

http://e-magazine.adoption.com [E-magazine.adoption.com] Adoption Week - Article for May 24, 2005: We were told in each of these instances that the children’s birth parents were “repeat offenders” within the system and had had their rights terminated on other children in the past. We were told that the birth parents in each case had not rectified the situations that had led to the removal of their other children and that reunification would not be successful.

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