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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - When Your Church Surveils Your Phone

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🗓️ 9 October 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Churches are using accountability apps to keep tabs on their members' behavior. But if your pastor wants to monitor your phone, can you truly consent?

Guest: Dhruv Mehrotra

Host: Lizzie O'Leary


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0:00.0

This Sunday were lied from the home of smart energy use three Acacia Drive and Dave Davo peck them off to a

0:05.8

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0:12.3

hiding. Please see for the home side thanks to the hard price electricity

0:16.2

Brim British gas full-time Davos saved it all for Sunday. Now we can enjoy the football

0:22.2

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0:26.1

Elements of 4 and 24th of September season C's apply smart meat to required

0:38.9

You only need to spend a few seconds on Grace Point Ministries YouTube channel to understand that this is not a conventional church

0:46.0

It's the power of God for salvation to all who dare believe it

0:49.6

So we share in suffering we fight like a good soldier of Jesus Christ

0:54.1

Turning away from useful passions to students and compassion students in college gathering together losing our lives because we've got all the game

1:04.6

Grace Point is an evangelical Southern Baptist ministry with more than 800 outposts in college towns around the US

1:11.1

And that's how Grant how why Lynn found his way to Grace Point's church in Berkeley, California

1:17.2

So while Grant was at Berkeley

1:20.0

He started attending Grace Point Church

1:23.6

And he became a full-time congregant. That's Drew Marotra an investigative reporter at Wired and

1:29.9

After about a year of being a member of the church

1:33.1

He felt comfortable enough to come out to his church leader as being a being a gay man and

1:41.0

When he did that, you know the church leader was accepting of him, which was surprising to Grant

1:45.6

But there was a caveat which was that Grant had to install this software covenant eyes on his phone which

1:51.8

The church leader according to Grant the church leader told him that the app would help him with quote all of his urges

1:58.7

Covenant eyes monitored Grant's phone and sent reports about what he was doing online to his designated accountability partner his church leader

2:07.7

Grant later shared those reports with Drew

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