‘Digital welfare state’: Big Tech allowed to target and surveil the poor, UN warns

UN’s rapporteur on extreme poverty says in devastating account Big Tech companies are being allowed to go unregulated in ‘human right free-zones’ and not held accountableTo read our entire Automating Poverty series, click hereNations around the world are “stumbling zombie-like into a digital welfare dystopia” in which artificial intelligence and other technologies are used to target, surveil and punish the poorest people, the United Nation’s monitor on poverty