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Rev. Peter M.J. Stravinskas
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David Warren
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Robert Royal
Data mining the faithful
Samuel D. James, First Things
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
These days it’s hard to surprise anybody with revelations about our compromised privacy in the Internet age. Still, it’s stunning to find that religious apps (such as Pray.com) regularly sell user info to third parties. Anger that people’s prayers can be packaged up and scoured for marketing opportunities is evidence that there is something precious still alive in modern culture: a sense of dissonance between technology and the sacred.