retrospec | Interception

Hitori Togusa
4/2 near Recolle Police Department
If you haven't met me before, this is Officer Hitori Togusa with the RPD. I have a request, for anyone comfortable sharing them. The photos that you're being sent? Could you keep an eye out for any kind of mirror or reflective surface anywhere in the shot? If you find them, could you send them along to me? We have software the might be able to find more in the shots than you'd be able to.
In addition, anyone who would like to make privacy complaints, I can only beg you to do so. We do not have a formal investigation into Retrospec at this time, but that may change if enough citizens come forwards with complaints. If you can, I'd even ask you to try to file them with people NOT on the application. I want to see if they'll notice anything wrong at that point.
Speaking of, there are a number of detectives, officers, and support personnel currently on the application, but rather than naming them outright, I'll leave it up to them to offer their services to the people of Recolle. I'm not sure who has a full case load right now and who doesn't.
Thank you.

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Togusa's eyebrows raise, and now he is getting something out to write with. "Can you elaborate on that last part? Because I know what I've experienced, but sometimes it was hard to ask people what was happening over the network while their phones were malfunctioning." He gives a half-smile. It sounds obvious when he says it out loud like that, but Rachel did point out an area where he's got some missing information.

"My phone actually shocked me one time," Togusa frowns when he says that.

"I'm aware of errors like that," Rachel offers sympathetically. "But in my case, it did things like give me glitched notifications, play music when I don't want it to, and once it accessed my private messages on other networks and sent it to people in my contacts list."

Togusa actually looks a little relieved when Rachel doesn't immediately concur with the shocking. Okay, so she didn't get zapped, good. But he nods and writes down what she's explaining. "Right, the text messages. It shouldn't have been able to access that." And the telecommunications violations just keep racking up.

"Were you subject to the videos that went out a few months ago? Or did you only see that from other people?" That is a particular sore spot with Togusa because of what it did to a few of his friends, less so for what Retrospec revealed about himself.

"It wasn't text messages," she said. "I use another site as a journal. I made private posts about my life to it, things only I wanted to see. Retrospec somehow accessed them and sent them to people I knew."

She looked down. "I saw it happen to plenty of people. I saw how upset they ended up."

Oh geez, Togusa hadn't noticed that part. He is writing that down, definitely, because that might be grounds for a civil suit, instead of just a criminal one. Anything they can get is good.

"It's nobody's fault but Retrosepc's," Togusa pauses to reassure her. "No matter what things that people did or said, that ended up hurting people, it's Retrospec's fault for spreading it around. We've all got things that we wouldn't want other people to know."

Rachel nodded. "I know," she said. "Ironically, it kind of helped me sort some things out with my friends, but I'd still much rather I got to bring it up to them myself."

She paused, and thought for a moment. "I don't think I have anything else to put in my complaint, though."

Togusa's eyes flicker briefly to his paper. "I know what you mean. There are certainly things that we would rather have come out in our own time. Me and a few of us here at the station, that is."

But he quickly smiles again. "I can't thank you enough for this. Anyone being brave enough to be the first to come forward about Retrospec? Is incredible. And with luck, we'll be able to build much more of a case off of this."

Rachel's eyes widened.

"I'm... I'm the first person to come forward like this?" she asked. "Really? I'm surprised..."

Nevermind all that stuff about being incredible. She looks down, looking a little embarrassed. "I-I guess it doesn't matter. I'm happy to help."

Togusa nods encouragingly. "I think everybody else thought we were more on top of this than we are. We do still need your help, too, if we're going to get the full Department to move into action."

"But don't worry, I've already gotten messages from other people, so you're not alone in this." It should be easy to keep her name out of this.

"Is there anything else that I can help you with, then? I'm still working on the photos, myself."

Rachel nods. "Alright. That's reassuring... and I can't thank you enough for helping me stay anonymous."

She taps her chin. "Anything else? Well... I guess there's no way of knowing how your superiors will react, so I won't bother asking what comes next. I don't know how open you can be about an investigation, either..."

Hm. "So no, I can't think of anything."

"I'm actually pretty sure that everyone will know the results of this. If I start to see some success, I can encourage more people to come forwards. And if this turns out to be a problem, I can try to guide people for what to do next."

Togusa stands, and he starts to lead the way back out of the station, this actually didn't take too long, so Togusa is hoping that Rachel will be able to easily explain her absence.

"If you start to get worried that you're getting followed again, or get any more pictures, please feel free to call me at any point."

Rachel nodded.

"Very well," she said, standing up to follow him. "Uhm... if I may, I think you're very brave making this kind of steff for everyone, sir. It's nice to know there's an authority figure looking out for us."

She nods again, at his last comment. "And I'll do my best to let you know if I run into danger like that, or if I find anything."

Oh. Togusa blinks, startled, and then he can't help but bow slightly at the compliment. "I'm just trying to do my job. But I appreciate you saying so." He appreciates it a lot, actually. The slightest acknowledgement of good work always gets held very close to Togusa's heart.

"Thank you. Please don't hesitate to call." Togusa is still unsure of the amount of danger they're all in. But he wouldn't forgive himself if this action, just trying to stand up to Retrospec, would put them in any greater danger.

"Some people don't even do that much," Rachel replied. "I think in times like this, we need more people like you, Mister Togusa."

She does her own short bow. "I promise I will if I run into something that gives me reason to," she says. "Luckily, I know two places I can find you, heh."

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