{"id":18709,"date":"2013-06-14T16:10:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T20:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=18709"},"modified":"2013-06-14T19:59:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T23:59:42","slug":"june-14-2013-ethics-surveillance-and-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2013\/06\/14\/june-14-2013-ethics-surveillance-and-security\/18709\/","title":{"rendered":" The Ethics of Government Data Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch our conversation with Michael Kessler of Georgetown University\u2019s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs about perspectives of religious and ethical traditions on the government\u2019s massive collection of electronic data and its vast surveillance effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch our conversation with Michael Kessler of Georgetown University\u2019s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs about perspectives of religious and ethical traditions on the government\u2019s massive collection of electronic data and its vast surveillance effort. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2013\/06\/14\/june-14-2013-ethics-surveillance-and-security\/18709\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":18764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[321,4967,3287,8079,2315,11016],"class_list":["post-18709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-barack-obama","tag-freedom-of-the-press","tag-internet","tag-national-security","tag-privacy","tag-surveillance","topics-ethics","topics-law","topics-us-domestic-issues"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>June 14, 2013 ~ The Ethics of Government Data Collection | June 14, 2013 | Religion &amp; 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