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Virginia Eubanks

Virginia Eubanks (born 1972) is an American political scientist, professor, and author studying technology and social justice. She is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY. Previously Eubanks was a Fellow at New America researching digital privacy, economic inequality, and data-based discrimination.

Eubanks has written and co-edited multiple award-winning books, the most well-known being ''Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor''. Her book uncovers the harms generated by computer algorithms to replace human decisions and how they negatively impact the economically disadvantaged. Provided by Wikipedia