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We surrender some of our privacy whenever we order on line, or use any number of digital devices. We trade our data for the service on offer 鈥� often ticking a little box and never reading the small print or giving the exchange a second thought.

But a series of exposes by the Guardian and 16 other international media organisations in the past week has revealed that our data is more vulnerable than we might have realised. In particular many governments around the world have planted malware on smartphones in a complex system of surveillance accessing a level of detail we might have thought was open only to ourselves and to God.

Targets for hacking, we鈥檙e told, include 鈥渓awyers, human rights defenders, religious figures, academics, businesspeople, diplomats, senior government officials and heads of state鈥�.

But quite apart from hacking, why are lots of us ready to give away so much private information, and how much should we to worry about it? Is privacy just a concept past its use-by date? And what does any of this have to do with religious faith?

Joining Roy to discuss the issues are

Dr Eric Stoddart 鈥� theologian at St Andrew's university in Scotland specialising in Surveillance and digital technology, author 鈥淭heological Perspectives on a Surveillance society鈥�

Dr Kate Ott, from Drew Theological School in Madison, New Jersey - a theologian and ethicist who's written 鈥淐hristian Ethics for a Digital Society鈥�

Father Matthew Roche Saunders, who is about to become Parish Priest and Catholic university chaplain in Aberystwyth

Dr Andreas Weigend, former Chief Scientist at Amazon and author of the book, 鈥淒ata for the People: How to Make Our Post-Privacy Economy Work for You.

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