Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

Virginia Eubanks

272 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction politics sociology technology challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equityThe State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years—becaus...

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