Automating Inequality

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

"Eubanks ... investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America"--Amazon.com.
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Felipe Saldarriaga @felipesaldata
5 stars
Jan 3, 2023

Impressive study about how the design and the outputs of data models ignite social breach problems. The Book also gives you highlights and tips in order to prevent this and deliver technological and social solutions.

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Garrett Jansen@frailtyy
4 stars
Aug 17, 2022

One of the greatest sins of tech workers is to imagine that technology can solve everything, that there's some sort of algorithm that can just handle all the work in the world while we actively imbue our biases into them to create what the author here calls a "digital poorhouse". The concept is sharp, the examples are detailed, authoritative and include the human side, something that academics often shy away from. This book challenges your expectations of tech by showing examples that are brazenly attempting to limit welfare recipients through bureaucracy rather than improving their lives or treating the homeless as some form of over-surveilled livestock that isn't granted the same rights as housed people. It's a powerful walk through some of the most unfortunate things we've tried to push despite accusations of immorality, whether the underlying cause is cruelty, lack of resources, or simply apathy towards the poor.

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Alex Buchner@alexbuchner
5 stars
Aug 17, 2022

An important read. They start with the poor, but they're coming for all of us.

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Boothby@claraby
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Apr 14, 2023
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Tiffany@scientiffic
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Sep 26, 2022
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Jayme Bosio@jaymeb
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Allison King@aking
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Marlee Stark@smstark
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Jan 17, 2022
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Ryan B Harvey@codeanddata
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Jan 8, 2022
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Nicholas Hanemann@nick_h
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Dec 20, 2021
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Drue Thomas@druesclues
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Celine Nguyen ✿@celinenguyen
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Jess Mingrino@jessmingrino
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Karolina@fox
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Emma Bakh@emmab
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Tyler Jefford@tjefford
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Jun 10, 2021