The Scotland’s People genealogy website, which is run by the government, made available adoption records including children’s original and new surnames on records going back more than 100 years. The mother of an adoptee who found her child’s information on the site, described it as every adoptive parent’s worst nightmare. The National Records of Scotland (NRS), which runs the website is exploring measures to safeguard the data, and claims there was no security breach.
Data movement platform Fivetran (which bought the Census CDP in May) has announced a merger with dbt Labs, a data transformation framework. Together, the companies will automate data management without being restricted to a single model. They call this “open data infrastructure.”