Dear Shannon, Delaney and Stevie (if I may):
I’m writing to let you know about an event that might interest Public Lab members, contituents, and allies.
I’d appreciate it if you could forward this announcement to your networks and extend the invitation to join us for a powerful conversation about data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity. In Automating Inequality, I systematically investigate 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. These stories are crucial to organizing today — the new digital tools I discuss automate and rationalize the politics of austerity, roll back hard-won civil rights, and act as barriers to shared public services and resources.Here’s what people have been saying about the book:- Naomi Klein: "This book is downright scary.”
- Ethan Zuckerman, Director of Civic Media, MIT: "Should be required reading.”
- Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body: "A must-read.”
- Astra Taylor, author of The People's Platform: "The single most important book about technology you will read this year.”
Thanks for your time, and I hope you will be able to join us!
Virginia Eubanks
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I write about technology and social justice.
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