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Automating Inequality

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

Virginia Eubanks

Automating Inequality uncovers the truth behind automated systems and their impact on human and civil rights, economic equity, and the lives of those living in poverty. Investigative author Virginia Eubanks tells harrowing stories of how data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models have affected the poorest communities in America. A truly eye-opening read that delves into some of the most pressing and timely issues of our day.
Publish Date
2018-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
2018-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
4.01
ISBN
9781250215789
Recommendations
1
Recommendations
2019-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
Honorable mention to a few other books I really enjoyed this year: Winners Take All, by Anand Giridharadas; Automating Inequality, by Virginia Eubanks; Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero, by James Romm; In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larsen; AI Superpowers, by Kai-Fu Lee; Antarctica, by Kim Stanley Robinson, and its true-life counterpart, Mawson's Will, by Lennard Bickel.      source