![]() ![]() To date, these protests have mired several public-private contracts between government agencies and some of the world’s biggest tech companies in controversy, including Google’s Project Maven, a collaboration with the Pentagon to target drone strikes Microsoft’s Azure, a cloud infrastructure for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to target protesters of family and child detention and Amazon’s surveillance system Rekognition, sold to Florida police departments to track suspected and potential criminals in public spaces.Īgainst this background, Automating Inequality is an urgently needed account of the ethical risks of automated, data-driven decision making. Rank and file employees have begun to speak out against the use of big data-driven software systems and infrastructure for ethically questionable ends like warfare, policing, and family separation at the United States-Mexico border. Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the PoorĪs I sat down in to write this review of Virginia Eubanks’ latest book, Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, I couldn’t help but consider it in light of the growing restiveness among tech workers in response to their companies’ perceived ethical lapses. ![]()
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