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Re: Internal Passports

To: [email protected] (David M. Rose), [email protected]
Subject: Re: Internal Passports
From: [email protected] (Lucky Green)
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 01:34:53 -0700
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At 13:06 8/1/96, David M. Rose wrote:
>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.

Ombudsman is a Swedish term. I suppose the modern day English
deconstruction/reconstruction would be ombudsperson.



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