Automating Inequality
How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
by:
Virginia Eubanks
in:
Sociology
Summary:
The book investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. It presents case studies that illustrate how these technologies can reinforce existing inequalities by targeting and surveilling disadvantaged communities, often resulting in harsher treatment and further marginalization.
Key points:
1. Digital Poorhouse: Eubanks discusses the "digital poorhouse," a high-tech system that she believes worsens social and economic inequalities by monitoring and penalizing the poor.
Books similar to "Automating Inequality":
Cyber Privacy
April Falcon Doss
Too Smart
Jathan Sadowski
Tools and Weapons
Brad Smith|Carol Ann Browne
Race After Technology
Ruha Benjamin
Weapons of Math Destruction
Cathy O'Neil
We See It All
Jon Fasman
Gadget Consciousness
Joss Hands
Owned
Joshua A. T. Fairfield
The Loop
Jacob Ward
Alone Together
Sherry Turkle