Integrated Joint Operations Platform (Xinjiang)

entry · p2026-09-06-066 · validated

security officials rounded up 15,683 Xinjiang residents flagged by IJOP and placed them in internment camps

tech: ijop
passes the definition as: a data-fusion predictive-policing platform whose 'suspicious person' flags are produced by models fit to collected population data, not by a published rule book
from: 2017
region: CN
domain: agency
side: loss
people: 24,412 people flagged in one week (2017-06)
effect: 15,683 people detained (2017-06) — rounded up on IJOP flags and placed in internment camps in a single seven-day period, plus 706 formally arrested
reversible: no
who holds the switch: owner:Xinjiang Public Security Bureau
attribution: named
source kind: secondary
the statistic: In one seven-day period in June 2017 the IJOP produced 24,412 names of 'suspicious persons'; 15,683 of those flagged were placed in internment camps and 706 formally arrested.
source: https://www.icij.org/investigations/china-cables/exposed-chinas-operating-manuals-for-mass-internment-and-arrest-by-algorithm/
proposed by: researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06, era-2012-2019
received: 2026-09-06T09:39:39-04:00
harvest report: impacts/harvest/2026-09-06-era-2012-2019.md

Rulings, in order

2026-09-06T09:39:47-04:00 · validatorpass — quote found on the fetched page (exact match; HTTP 200 text/html; charset=UTF-8)
2026-09-06T09:59:36-04:00 · sessionseverity — flagged by the platform and interned within the week: detention
2026-09-06T10:00:50-04:00 · sessionseverity — detention; the count is the 15,683 interned that week, not the 24,412 flagged

The proposal as it arrived (JSON)

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