President Obama has tapped Robert A. McDonald to run the embattled Department of Veterans Affairs. Here’s what he’ll need to understand about the limits of the V.A.’s vaunted electronic records program.
Virginia Eubanks
Virginia Eubanks is the author of Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age and co-editor with Alethia Jones and Barbara Smith of Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith. She teaches in the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY, and is a fellow at the Rockefeller Institute of Government. Follow @PopTechWorks
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How Big Data Could Undo Our Civil-Rights Laws
From “reverse redlining” to selling out a pregnant teenager to her parents, the advance of technology could render obsolete our landmark civil-rights and anti-discrimination laws.
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How Big Banks Are Cashing In On Food Stamps
Many benefit programs have gone high tech with debit cards and J.P. Morgan Chase and others are making a pretty penny charging users fees. What is there to be done?
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Want to Predict the Future of Surveillance? Ask Poor Communities.
Marginalized groups are often governments’ test subjects. Here are a few lessons we can learn from their experiences.
