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Internal Passports

To: [email protected]
Subject: Internal Passports
From: [email protected] (David M. Rose)
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 13:06:46 -0700 (MST)
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On 1 Aug 1996 (Timothy C. May) wrote:

>I'm with Duncan and Lucky on this one. Nations with a "Privacy Ombudsman"
>are almost always nations with extensive files on individuals, their
>habits, and their political activities.
>
>Having a "Privacy Ombudsman" is a bone thrown to the proles. I suspect a
>police state like Singapore has such a person.

My understanding is that the acceptable term is "ombud", or possibly
"ombuds".  Cf.: "chair", "anchor", "milk", "post", "g-", "colored",  "fire",
"police", "China", "French", etc.

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