Technological redlining is the creation of injustices between marginalized groups of people through digital technologies such as the internet. In the past, this included denying loans and mortgages within specific areas. Redlining comes from the red lines that were drawn on maps to designate targeted areas in lower income neighborhoods. This practice has been going on since the 1930’s claiming that black neighborhoods were in greater economic difference they were unacceptable for loans and future development.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development says that Facebook allows advertisers to disallow people who live in a specific area from seeing ads. Facebook also uses it’s algorithm to discriminate against people of different classes such as parents, non-American’s, non-Christians, handicapped people, people of other cultures, and people closely related to the Fair Housing Act’s group of protected classes.
I don’t think this is right at all and is something that should be looked into more.
Works Cited
Hud Charges Facebook With Housing Discrimination Over Company’s Targeted Advertising Practices, March 28, 2019, https://www.hud.gov/press/press_releases_media_advisories/HUD_No_19_035