Eubanks, Virginia
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
- ISBN 13:
- 9781250215789
- author:
- Eubanks, Virginia
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Picador USA
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2019
- Pages:
- 288
- Dimensions:
- 21 x 13.7 centimetres
- Genre:
- Computers, Social Aspects, General,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks is a powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination and its impact on civil and human rights and economic equity. Since the dawn of the digital age, decision-making in various fields has undergone revolutionary change, with automated systems controlling which neighborhoods get policed, families attain needed resources, and individuals are investigated for fraud. The most invasive and punitive systems are often aimed at the poor. In this book, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. The author examines how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity, highlighting cases where new computer systems interpret mistakes as "failure to cooperate", algorithms calculate vulnerability to prioritize housing resources, and statistical models predict potential victims of abuse or neglect.
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