Automating Inequality by Virginia Eubanks

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Automating Inequality by Virginia Eubanks

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Summary

A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity.

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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.

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ISBN 13 9781250074317
ISBN 10 1250074312
Title Automating Inequality
Author Virginia Eubanks
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher St Martin's Press
Year published 2018-09-17
Number of pages 272
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