Laura Kalbag

‘They track every move’: how US parole apps created digital prisoners

Written by Todd Feathers on The Guardian.

“Critics also argue that the data-gathering and experimental predictive analytics incorporated into some tracking apps are bound to generate false positives that lead to arrests for technical violations of probation or parole conditions.”

”Often it’s people of colour who are having their data extracted from them. This valuable commodity is literally the body of black individuals” -Prof Chaz Arnett, Maryland University

Read ‘‘They track every move’: how US parole apps created digital prisoners’ on the The Guardian site.

Tagged with: tracking, discrimination, prisons.