u/KushXin

I worked for a private contracting group that operated in the gray zone between corporate security and behavioral analysis. Our job was monitoring individuals flagged by clients for “pattern analysis,” reputation risk, or internal investigations.
Most of my work involved low-profile surveillance, environmental tracking, and data correlation between physical movement and digital activity. It wasn’t the kind of thing you see in movies—no dramatic stuff, mostly long hours, repetition, and documentation.
I’m not here to glorify it. I left the field after realizing how blurry the ethical lines can get when you’re told your job is “just data collection.”
I can’t share identifying details or anything that violates confidentiality agreements, but I can talk about:
How these operations are structured
What “surveillance work” actually looks like day-to-day
How people get flagged for monitoring
The psychological side of doing this kind of work
Why I left
Ask me anything.