Surveillance
Nathan Decker examines government surveillance systems, particularly China's comprehensive Social Credit System, as a matter requiring Christian reflection and response. The article argues that surveillance technologies and their use for state control over citizens constitute an important ethical concern for believers to understand and address from a biblical worldview.
Since taking on the role of contributor to the "All Around Us" rubric for the Standard Bearer, I have regularly taken notice of articles in the media on the subject of the government's surveillance of its citizenry. It is on this topic that I write, and for reasons that will be laid out at the end of the article, this is a subject well worth our reflection upon as Christians. I begin with developments in China. China is by far the world leader in the surveillance of its citizens. Eight of the...
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