Making this post cause I wanna talk about it!!!! Cry for attention-ass behavior or whatever.
Have seen posts about Network Effect and Rapport that suggest ART doesn't actually respect government name SecUnit's privacy because when Iris meets SecUnit she immediately recognizes it, but like...
ART got home and immediately went to the library to research its new crush friend enough that it knows about the intel drones that SecUnit does not even have in Artificial Condition because it's on the run with a backpack, one change of clothes, and X terabytes of trauma media.
We're really thinking that ART doesn't have a little news alert for anything and everything coming out of the Preservation Alliance? That it did not see that shit from before Fugitive Telemetry when SecUnit got papped by some rando and spread all over the newsfeeds?
Like... it definitely saw that, right? We can safely make inferences that it would be checking the newsfeeds.
Anyway, worse but funnier option: Iris also just set a news alert for anything about rogue SecUnits and just rolls up one day with the same picture, which ART's been holding close and encrypted, like "Hey, is it this one? Or a different one?"