Being watched: Surveillance and the Christian community
We need a more developed theological ethics of what it means to live in an age when so much information about ourselves is so readily available.
We need a more developed theological ethics of what it means to live in an age when so much information about ourselves is so readily available.
Is the NSA electronic surveillance story about human rights? Is it about the common good, or loving the neighbor?
A new WaPo/Pew poll finds that 56 percent of Americans thing it’s acceptable for the National Security Agency to secretly access millions of Americans’ phone records. Sixty-two percent favor investigating terrorist threats “even if that intrudes on personal privacy.”
Do people just not give a damn about privacy anymore, what with their dreams of reality-TV celebrity and their willingness to function as a Facebook or Google product?