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Automating inequality : how high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor / Virginia Eubanks.

Eubanks, Virginia, 1972- (författare)
ISBN 9781250215789
First Picador edition
Publicerad: New York : Picador, St. Martin's Press, 2019
Copyright: ©2018
Engelska 271 pages
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  • 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 -- Afterword to the paperback edition.
  • "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 of homeless people in order to prioritize them for an inadequate 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--rather than humans--control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed 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. In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. The book is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories, from a woman in Indiana whose benefits are literally cut off as she lies dying to a family in Pennsylvania in daily fear of losing their daughter because they fit a certain statistical profile. The U.S. has always used its most cutting-edge science and technology to contain, investigate, discipline and punish the destitute. Like the county poorhouse and scientific charity before them, digital tracking and automated decision-making hide poverty from the middle-class public and give the nation the ethical distance it needs to make inhumane choices: which families get food and which starve, who has housing and who remains homeless, and which families are broken up by the state. In the process, they weaken democracy and betray our most cherished national values. This deeply researched and passionate book could not be more timely."--Publisher's description. 

Ämnesord

Fattiga  (sao)
Teknik och politik  (sao)
Internet  -- sociala aspekter (sao)
Poor  -- Services for -- United States -- Data processing. (LCSH)
Poverty  -- United States. (LCSH)
Public welfare  -- Law and legislation -- United States. (LCSH)
Internet  -- Social aspects -- United States. (LCSH)
Computers  -- Social aspects -- United States. (LCSH)
Poverty  -- United States. (LCSH Children)
Pauvres  -- Services -- États-Unis -- Informatique. (Vedettes-matière)
Pauvreté  -- États-Unis. (Vedettes-matière)
Internet  -- Aspect social -- États-Unis. (Vedettes-matière)
Ordinateurs  -- Aspect social -- États-Unis. (Vedettes-matière)
86.78 information and communication law.  (bcl)
Society.  (eflch)
Poverty  (fast)
Soziale Ungleichheit  (gnd)
Technische Innovation  (gnd)
Society.  (ukslc)
COMPUTERS  -- Social Aspects. (bisacsh)
POLITICAL SCIENCE  -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. (bisacsh)
SOCIAL SCIENCE  -- Poverty & Homelessness. (bisacsh)
SOCIAL SCIENCE  -- Social Classes & Economic Disparity. (bisacsh)
Computers  -- Social aspects (fast)
Internet  -- Social aspects (fast)
Public welfare  -- Law and legislation (fast)
Poor  -- Services for -- United States -- Data processing. (nli)
Poverty  -- United States. (nli)
Poor  (LCSH)
Internet--Social aspects  -- Social aspects (LCSH)
Technology and state  (LCSH)
Förenta staterna  (sao)
United States  (fast)
United States.  (gtt)

Klassifikation

HC79.P6 (LCC)
362.560285 (DDC)
08.44 (bcl)
Ohf (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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