Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
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People of color, migrants, unpopular religious groups, sexual minorities, the poor, and other oppressed and exploited populations bear a much higher burden of monitoring and tracking than advantaged groups.
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The legislation was not intended to work; it was intended to heap stigma on social programs and reinforce the cultural narrative that those who access public assistance are criminal, lazy, spendthrift addicts.
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digital tracking and automated decision-making hide poverty from the professional middle-class public
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and give the nation the ethical distance it needs to make inhuman choices: