Human Rights Watch report provides technical proof of widespread government surveillance effort in western region
By Gerry Shih Gerry Shih China Correspondent Email Bio Follow May 1 at 11:49 PM Chinese authorities in Xinjiang are building a comprehensive database that tracks the precise locations of its citizens, their mobile app usage, their religious habits and even their electricity and gasoline consumption as part of a technology-driven crackdown that has interred an estimated 1 million Muslim citizens, according to an analysis of Chinese government software by a U.S. rights group.
The IJOP system, which keeps track of practically the entire Xinjiang population, alerts authorities when a person unexpectedly crosses virtual “fences” by driving past a certain checkpoint or checking into a hotel, according to the rights group. It tracks citizens’ smartphones, their national identification cards and GPS devices on their vehicles, which have been widely installed under new government regulations.
While the broad outlines of Xinjiang’s surveillance effort was previously known, the Human Rights Watch provided technical proof of Chinese authorities tracking a litany of lawful behavior. The IJOP system tracked, for instance, whether a person’s phone was turned off for a long time, and whether a car’s owner or different person was filling up at a gas station, said Human Rights Watch researcher Maya Wang, the report’s author.
But the Xinjiang example also carries profound global implications in an era of big data, artificial intelligence and high-tech policing. Chinese state-owned contractors and private start-ups have been making significant advances in facial and gait recognition technologies that are being increasingly deployed in China’s airports, train stations and hotels.
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