Tag: prisons
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‘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.”
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”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
Tagged with: tracking, discrimination, prisons.