We might call this poverty profiling. Like racial profiling, poverty profiling targets individuals for extra scrutiny based not on their behavior but rather on a personal characteristic: living in poverty. Because the model confuses parenting while poor with poor parenting, the AFST views parents who reach out to public programs as risks to their children.2426 ↱
Automating Inequality
How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
Virginia Eubanks