Automating inequality how high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor
"The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years--because a new computer system interprets any mistake as "failure to cooperate." In Los Angeles, an algorithm calculates the comparative vulnerability of tens of thousands...
| Main Author: | Eubanks, Virginia, 1972- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
St. Martin's Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: red flags
- From poorhouse to database
- Automating eligibility in the heartland
- High-tech homelessness in the City of Angels
- The Allegheny algorithm
- The digital poorhouse
- Conclusion: dismantling the digital poorhouse
- Acknowledgments
- Sources and methods
- Notes
- Index.