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DESCRIPTION:In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the 
 impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on 
 poor and working-class people in America. 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. A conversation will follow between the author 
 and Jennifer Friedenbach, Executive Director of Coalition on Homelessness, 
 facilitated by Leslie Dreyer of the Housing Rights Committee which 
 co-sponsors the event.\n\nSince the dawn of the digital age, 
 decision-making in finance, employment, politics, health and human services 
 has undergone revolutionary change. Today, automated systems—rather than 
 humans—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, the most invasive and punitive systems are 
 aimed at the poor.\n\nVirginia Eubanks is an Associate Professor of 
 Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is also the author 
 of Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age. 
 Her writing about technology and social justice has appeared in The 
 American Prospect, The Nation, Harper’s and Wired. For two decades, 
 Eubanks has worked in community technology and economic justice 
 movements.\n\nAs the Coalition on Homelessness actively organizes folks to 
 stop Mayor Farrell's sweeps on our homeless neighbors in SF, a city 
 privileging tech elite and real estate speculators while sporting the 
 highest inequality gap in the nation, this reading and conversation 
 couldn't be more timely.\n\nEubanks' books is a deeply researched 
 exploration of how new integrated databases, predictive models, and policy 
 algorithms target poor and working-class people across the United 
 States.\n\nThe book tells three stories about new high-tech tools in public 
 services: an attempt to automate all the eligibility decisions for TANF, 
 Medicaid and food stamps in Indiana in 2006; an electronic registry of the 
 unhoused in Los Angeles; and a statistical model intended to predict which 
 children might be victims of abuse and neglect in Allegheny County, PA. 
 Eubanks tells these stories from the point of view of those most affected: 
 poor and working-class families across the country and across the color 
 line, who fearlessly shared their stories and lives with her over three 
 years of investigative reporting.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/05/07/18809012.php
SUMMARY:How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\n1680 Market Street\nSan Francisco, CA 94102
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/05/07/18809012.php
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