Predicting Your Pizza Needs with Surveillance Data
CarissaVeliz · x · 2026-07-16
The author uses a concrete example to illustrate the mechanism of "surveillance serving prediction": Papa John's observes your daily shopping habits to infer when you are running low on food and when you are more likely to order pizza.
The focus of this post isn't a new model, but rather how predictive systems translate daily behavioral data into business decisions, raising concerns regarding surveillance and privacy.
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