![]() Virginia Eubanks is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY. ![]() Powerhouses Alondra Nelson and Julia Angwin join Eubanks for a discussion on data-based discrimination. In the process, they weaken democracy and betray our most cherished national values. Like the county poorhouse and scientific charity before them, digital tracking and automated decision-making hide poverty from the middle-class public and give the nation the ethical distance it needs to make inhuman choices: which families get food and which starve, who has housing and who remains homeless, and which families are broken up by the state. has always used its most cutting-edge science and technology to contain, investigate, discipline and punish the destitute. ![]() ![]() The book is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories, from a woman in Indiana whose benefits are literally cut off as she lays dying to a family in Pennsylvania in daily fear of losing their daughter because they fit a certain statistical profile. ![]() Virginia Eubanks discusses her most recent book Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor.Įubanks systematically shows the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. ![]()
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