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Author: Virginia Eubanks

Virginia Eubanks is the author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. She lives in Troy, New York.

Co-published with The GuardianElectronic visit verification systems make homecare more difficult, trap people with disabilities, and cost more than paper timesheets.

Co-published with The Guardian. Tens of thousands of people have received demands to repay alleged overpayments of government benefits – often decades old – plunging them into a Kafkaesque struggle against a faceless bureaucracy.

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