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<p><b><i>WINNER: </i>The 2019 Lillian Smith Book Award,</b> <b>2018 McGannon Center Book Prize, and shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice</b><br><br><b>Astra Taylor, author of <i>The People's Platform: </i>"The single most important book about technology you will read this year."<br></b><b><br>Dorothy Roberts, author of <i>Killing the Black Body</i>: "A must-read."</b><br><br><b>A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination?and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity</b><br><br>The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years—because a new computer system interprets any mistake as “failure to cooperate.” In Los Angeles, an algorithm calculates the comparative vulnerability of tens of thousands of homeless people in order to prioritize them for an inadequate pool of housing resources. In Pittsburgh, a child welfare agency uses a statistical model to try to predict which children might be future victims of abuse or neglect.<br><br>Since the dawn of the digital age, decision-making in finance, employment, politics, health and human services

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Author

Virginia Eubanks, Eubanks

Publisher

St. Martin’s Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781250215789

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Economics, Political Science, Sociology

Rating

4.4 / 5 (460 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14