Having the opportunity to read Virginia Eubanks’s Automating Inequality: How high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor was doubtless an enlightening experience. Through a combination of statistical data and personal interviews, Eubanks develops the concept of the “digital poorhouse” whereby the government’s use of digital data negatively impacts the poor (examples ranged from the automation of welfare eligibility to the child welfare services). It was a fascinating expose which resonated with Foucauldian thinking of the appearance of institutional “progress” (or the lack thereof). The discussion was a great opportunity to engage with other people’s responses to this work and to think of this work in the context of the recent events in Iowa. In any case, this was an important reminder of the importance of responsibility and vigilance in the pursuit of justice.