Charity Fined for Destroying “Irreplaceable” Adoption Records: What Every Nonprofit Must Learn from the Birthlink Case
Imagine discovering that the missing piece of your past—maybe a letter from a birth parent, a photograph, or a critical document tying your history together—was gone forever. Not because of time, but because of a data management error. This isn’t a far-fetched scenario for thousands of people in Scotland, following the destruction of personal records…