Automating inequality

Automating inequality: how high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor

by Eubanks, Virginia

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"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 o…

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Title Statements

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

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"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."--Jacket

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2017.
  • Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):St. Martin's Press
  • Place of Publication:New York, NY
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2017.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (ix, 260 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781466885967, 1466885963
  • oclc:on1229972037
  • LC Classification:HC79.P6
  • Dewey Decimal:362.5/60285

Table of Contents

Introduction: red flags -- From poorhouse to database -- Automating welfare 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 -- Endnotes -- Index.

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algoritmen Data-analyse datamining Pauvres -- Services -- États-Unis Pauvreté -- États-Unis Politique scientifique et technique -- … Poor -- Services for -- United States Poverty Poverty -- United States Sociale verandering Technology and state Technology and state -- United States United States

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Eubanks, Virginia

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