Automating Inequality by Virginia Eubanks

Automating Inequality by Virginia Eubanks

In Indiana, one million people lose their healthcare, food stamps, and cash benefits in three years—because a new computer system interprets any application mistake as “failure to cooperate.” In Los Angeles, an algorithm calculates the comparative vulnerability of tens of thousands of homeless people in order to prioritize them for a shrinking pool of housing resources. In Pittsburgh, a child welfare agency uses a statistical model to try to predict which children might be future victims of abuse or neglect. Since the dawn of the digital age, decision-making in finance, employment, politics, health and human services has undergone revolutionary change. Today, automated systems control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain resources, and who is investigated for fraud. While we all live under this new regime of data, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the poor.

Eubanks, Virginia: - Virginia Eubanks is the cofounder of Our Knowledge, Our Power (OKOP), a grassroots anti-poverty and welfare rights organization, and is Associate Professor in the Department of Women's Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY.

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ISBN 13	9781250074317
ISBN 10	1250074312
Titel	Automating Inequality
Autor	Virginia Eubanks
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	St Martin's Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2018-09-17
Seitenanzahl	272
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