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NY TID, “Automatiserad profilering ett hot för USA:s fattiga” (in Swedish) The key aspects Eubanks highlights - big data collection, automated decisionmaking, and predictive analytics - also characterize expanding high-tech approaches to criminal justice.”

“ Automating Inequality shines a needed spotlight on government assistance programs the public is more likely to view as benevolent than as punitive. HARVARD LAW REVIEW, “Digitizing the Carceral State” What’s wanted is for the harm not to have occurred in the first place, and not to continue in the future.” “Public policy that hinges on understanding the distinctions among outcome variables, prediction variables, training data, and validation data seems certain to become the domain of technocrats. Everyone needs to understand that technology is no substitute for justice.” Its argument should be widely circulated, to poor people, social service workers and policymakers, but also throughout the professional classes. “ ‘Automating Inequality’ is riveting (an accomplishment for a book on technology and policy). “ How Big Data is ‘Automating Inequality’” THE NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY REVIEW OF BOOKS

Automating inequality by virginia eubanks