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.
‘We Don’t Deserve This’: New App Places US Caregivers Under Digital Surveillance
Co-published with The Guardian. Electronic visit verification systems make homecare more difficult, trap people with disabilities, and cost more than paper timesheets.
Zombie Debts Are Hounding Struggling Americans. Will You Be Next?
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.