Public Talk by Virginia Eubanks: "Automating Inequality: How High-tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor"
5:30 PM 鈥� 7:00 PM
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.
"This book is downright scary,鈥� says Naomi Klein, 鈥渂ut with its striking research and moving, indelible portraits of life in the 鈥榙igital poorhouse,鈥� you will emerge smarter and more empowered to demand justice.鈥�
The author will do a book-signing following the event. Books will be available for purchase on-site.
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