Join the UVA School of Data Science and Humanities Informatics' Surveillance and Infrastructure research group for a discussion with Virginia Eubanks, author of Automating Inequality, and associate professor in the Department of Political Science at University of Albany, SUNY.
Today, automated systems control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed resources, and who is investigated for fraud. While we all live under this new regime of data analytics, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the poor.
Bestselling author Naomi Klein said, “This book is downright scary — but with its striking research and moving, indelible portraits of life in the ‘digital poorhouse,’ you will emerge smarter and more empowered to demand justice.”
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