Integrated Joint Operations Platform (Xinjiang)

entry · p2026-09-06-067 · validated

the 13 million ethnic Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang

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
from: 2016
region: CN
domain: agency
side: loss
people: 13,000,000 people (2019-05-01)
effect: 1,000,000 people interned (2019-05-01) — up to one million held in 'political education' camps in the region the platform surveils; no recourse against a flag
reversible: no
who holds the switch: owner:Xinjiang Public Security Bureau
attribution: scale
source kind: secondary
the statistic: HRW's May 2019 reverse-engineering of the IJOP app reports 13 million Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang under the surveillance system and up to one million held in political education camps.
source: https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/05/01/chinas-algorithms-repression/reverse-engineering-xinjiang-police-mass-surveillance
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 — up to a million interned on the platform's flags: detention
2026-09-06T10:00:50-04:00 · sessionseverity — detention; the count that bore it is the up-to-a-million interned, not the 13 million under the platform (the latter would be S2, control of movement)

The proposal as it arrived (JSON)

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