They power to spy on people you want to know about and obtain personal or privileged information using the means available to the IC is obviously one of the most useful tools available to an individual in the modern era. Having access and inventing a need to know, even in a system absent corruption (which ours is clearly not) is not very difficult.
This gets marketed during the recruiting phase while they are still trying to activate you for knowing to much to turn you into an Asset
On multiple occasions Inside rs have alluded to using these tools for this purpose with multiple older and creepier perpetrators implying they used the surveillance Feed to peep on children for their personal pleasure; two people that I can remember specifically and I would guess up to 4. And those that implied using it for regular non-pedophilic peeping have been innumerable, on the order of dozens or perhaps even hundreds.
Similar to the Popcorn concept another Recognition Signal used is driving trucks around you that look like they have “movie entertainment” lights like a theater sign. And in the event you got lucky, they’ll drive “Mmm… Lays” chips trucks around you in the following days. Examples below later when I have time to upload. It’s happened ~4 times, 2 with pictures.
Update: I was considering an instance of doctorplaying when I was way younger where it stuck out to me (I record this because it was the
Date unknown February 24, 2026