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BOOK
Title Automating inequality : how high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor / Virginia Eubanks
Imprint New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, [2017]
©2017

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 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 3 Samhällsvetenskap  362.5 engelska    DUE 24-04-12  ---
Descript 260 pages illustrations 22 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references and index
"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." --from dust jacket
Subject Fattigdom
Teknik och politik
Fattiga
Poor -- Services for -- United States -- Data processing
Poverty -- United States
Technology and state -- United States
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Classmark 362.5
ISBN/ISSN 9781250074317 (hardback)
1250074312 (hardback)
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