Be Part of the Adoption Reform Solution Part 2-Protect Privacy
In Part 1, we discussed how to report agencies and governmental authorities. We also discussed how to report illegal fundraisers that use PayPal. See the February 2012 post here. Part 1 focused on punishment of bad agencies, APs, and PAPs.
Part 2 is focused on the long term effects of public advertisements of at-risk children that may be adopted and/or adoptees that are being disrupted. We will have more posts to come on this subject.
We have had enough of throwing at-risk children’s privacy in the trash! I was dining with a friend last weekend when she told me about an adoptee who was disrupting that she saw on Facebook!This child’s extremely detailed profile has been spread everywhere and there is no way to take it back. This child’s history is NOT the world’s business! Public Photolistings and their increasingly wide spread need to stop.
Other situations like this CAN be curtailed. We need your help to be watchful and bombard Facebook anytime you see one of these scenarios on Facebook. Here is the link to report abuse of groups or individuals on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/help/reportlinks
The first case is the one I just discussed. The Group Mommies of Miracles exposed WACAP client Donny’s case on August 22 (you will need to scroll down after typing the name into Facebook search field). There were at least 75 shares days ago and who knows how many places that his information was exposed to.This child was first advertised on private groups with pleas to NOT post his info on the internet, followed by WACAP posting it on their website with the 45 day countdown hysteria and then it spread everywhere.
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Great post! Do you have any suggestions on who to report privacy violations that are on blogspot or WordPress blogs? Eg posts by PAPs /APs / NGOs that violate childrens’ privacy in the same ways as the Facebook groups you describe above.
FWIW, I’ve reported a handful of egregious violations to USCIS and/or the government of the country the PAP is adopting from but I don’t think anything came of it.
I am looking into it. When I read NASW code of ethics, there are many passages that talk about protecting PHI Private Health information. SO I would think that agencies who disclose all of these medical issues are violating the code of ethics, though I do not know about laws. As for the blogs, perhaps a search of state laws from where the blog originates from may find places to report this. To me, much of the blogs are acting as unlicensed social workers. Some states have laws about essentially impersonating a Social Worker and some do not. That is the line of thinking that I have right now on this. I will round up what I have found on that and post it soon.
Paps that illegally photolist kids (and medical conditions) and think it’s a good thing:
http://eightisnotenough2012.blogspot.ca/2012/09/the-kids-of-pln-part-2.html
http://eightisnotenough2012.blogspot.ca/2012/09/the-kids-of-bad-place-part-1.html