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In Indiana, one million people lose their healthcare, food stamps, and cash benefits in three years—because a new computer system interprets any application 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 a shrinking 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 control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain 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.

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

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In Indiana, one million people lose their healthcare, food stamps, and cash benefits in three years—because a new computer system... Read more

    Publisher: St Martin's Press
    Publication Date: 17/09/2018
    ISBN13: 9781250074317, 978-1250074317
    ISBN10: 1250074312

    Number of Pages: 272

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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    In Indiana, one million people lose their healthcare, food stamps, and cash benefits in three years—because a new computer system interprets any application 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 a shrinking 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 control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain 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.

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