How Evangelicals Use Digital Surveillance to Target the Unconverted
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The hot new thing in proselytizing is an app that allows Christian conservatives to collect data on whole neighborhoods of potential converts.
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What the FUCK

For some reason it didn’t sink in to me from reading the article how weird and sinister this is

Literal names and addresses. Unbelievable.

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Can you filter it to only immigrants? How flexible is the display of people’s names and addresses, family vs no kids, young or old, things like that?

Uninstalled already. It was pushy about asking for my church address so they could contact them to promote the app.

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Got it. I’m just gonna go back to assuming the worst.

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