Investigation
Nationwide Surveillance Infrastructure and Offline Enforcement
From video and police big data to biometrics, phones, real-name systems, platforms, and grids.
Articles
11- Digital Surveillance and Human Rights: From Cameras and Platforms to Offline ActionA five-stage account of collection, linkage, classification, dispatch, and action.
- Skynet, Sharp Eyes, and the Public Video SystemConstruction, data interfaces, grassroots use, and the 2025 national regulation governing public video surveillance.
- Police Big-Data Fusion Platforms: How Information Enters PolicingCross-database aggregation, risk tags, lead dispatch, grassroots checks, and feedback loops.
- Facial, Voice, Gait, and Vehicle Recognition as Control InterfacesCollection, matching, error, and the conversion of multimodal recognition into coercive action.
- Phone Forensics and Device Search: Opening the Personal ArchiveField checks, forensic tools, cloud synchronization, and contact expansion turn phones into relational evidence.
- How Real-Name Rules Bind Accounts, Devices, and Offline IdentityHow phone numbers, identity documents, platform accounts, and public-service records form a unified identity interface.
- How Grid Governance Turns Digital Leads into Doorstep EnforcementPlatform alerts, street-level dispatch, grid visits, employer coordination, and feedback into data systems.
- Platform-Police Data Interfaces: When Companies Become Governance NodesLegal requests, administrative cooperation, proactive moderation, retention, and technical supply.
- Health-Code Function Creep: From Public Health Infrastructure to Stability ControlThe Henan red-code incident shows fractures among data purpose, administrative pressure, grassroots execution, and accountability.
- The Command Chain of Xinjiang's Integrated Joint Operations PlatformReconstructing IJOP from data collection and risk rules to police checking and detention consequences.
- Surveillance Procurement and Vendor Chains: Industrializing State CapacityBudgets, tenders, integration, algorithms, and maintenance contracts reveal how surveillance capacity expands.
Cases
5- Xinjiang IJOP Risk Lists and the Detention ChainHow application fields, police checking, and the OHCHR assessment connect data labels to liberty.
- International WeChat Monitoring: How Cross-Border Data Enters Censorship TrainingCitizen Lab testing of the interface among international content, model training, and censorship of China accounts.
- Henan Bank Depositors and Red Codes: Public-Health Infrastructure Repurposed for Stability ControlAn officially confirmed health-code misuse case linking lists, system permissions, and grassroots restriction.
- The White Paper Protest Suppression Chain: Removal, Identification, and Offline TracingReconstructing the online-offline connection through removal, identity leads, device checks, and later tracing.
- Community Grids and Pandemic Lockdowns: How Enforcement Entered Household LifeAddress-level enforcement through health codes, community lists, property access, and police coordination.
Event records
5- Xinjiang IJOP and Mass Risk ScreeningThe data-driven policing chain documented by technical research and the OHCHR assessment.
- Henan Village-Bank Depositor Red-Code IncidentPublic-health data infrastructure was used to restrict bank depositors seeking redress.
- Research on Monitoring of International WeChat ContentCitizen Lab's technical findings on international-user files and images entering monitoring processes.
- Information Control During the White Paper ProtestsHow platform deletion, device checks, and offline tracing connected around the protests.
- Urban Grid and Digital Access Control During the PandemicDense governance through health codes, venue codes, community lists, and grassroots dispatch.