Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (951 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250074312 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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We learn once again that technology might be neutral but not the choices the powerful make to use it. Read this book and join with Eubanks in pushing back against the surveillance state and the injustice it sustains." Sanford Schram, Professor of Political Science, Hunter College, CUNY; Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center "Income inequality relies on the lie of the neutrality of efficiency over the value of our common humanity. That Virginia Eubanks is our guidea person so capable, ethical and whipsmartis a rare combination indeed." Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family“In this illuminating book, Eubanks shows us that in spite of cosmetic reforms, our policies for the disadvantaged remain
. Virginia Eubanks is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY. She lives in Troy, NY. She is the author of Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age and co-editor, with Alethia Jones, of Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn
has always used its most cutting-edge science and technology to contain, investigate, discipline and punish the destitute. While we all live under this new regime of data, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the poor.Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. In the tradition of The New Jim Crow and $2 a Day, a powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination.The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three yearsbecause a new computer system interprets any mistake as &ldquo