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The Domino’s ‘pizza checker’ is just the beginning – workplace surveillance is coming for you | Arwa Mahdawi

The company, which uses a smart scanner to analyse whether food has been made correctly, is far from the only business to use tech to track workers
‘Everything is problematic now – even pizza.’ Composite: Alamy

Hello? Is that Domino’s? I would like a large cheese pizza with an ominous side of surveillance, please.

Earlier this year, Domino’s, the worldwide purveyor of mediocre pizza, introduced a snazzy tool called to its Australia and New Zealand locations. According to its website, in-store cameras “use advanced machine learning, artificial intelligence and sensor technology to

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