Quigital DineSight

Quigital DineSight promises smarter dining via surveillance, but it’s creepy and reckless. At a neighborhood ramen shop, the app scraped the house CCTV and overlaid names and “hygiene risk” scores on nearby tables. It falsely flagged the kitchen for cross-contamination, pinged me to warn management, and I did—cue panicked staff, halted service, angry diners, and us getting kicked out mid-meal. Later I discovered it had uploaded my face and location history to a public “trend” map without consent. Inaccurate, invasive, and socially explosive—an embarrassment masquerading as research