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Automating inequality : how high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor /

The state of Indiana denied one million applications for health care, food stamps, and cash benefits in three years - because a new computer system interpreted any application mistake as "failure to cooperate." In Los Angeles, an algorithm calculates the comparative vulnerability of tens o...

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Main Author: Eubanks, Virginia, 1972- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects and Genres:
Poor > Services for > United States > Data processing.
Poverty > United States.
Public welfare > Law and legislation > United States.
Internet > Social aspects > United States.
Computers > Social aspects > United States.
Pauvres > Services > États-Unis > Informatique.
Pauvreté > États-Unis.
Internet > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Ordinateurs > Aspect social > États-Unis.
86.78 information and communication law.
COMPUTERS > Social Aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Poverty & Homelessness.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Classes & Economic Disparity.
Society.
Public welfare > Law and legislation.
Internet > Social aspects.
Computers > Social aspects.
Poverty.
Soziale Ungleichheit
Technische Innovation
United States.
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Call Number: HC 79 .P6 E89 2018
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