After widespread demonstrations, China relaxed its strict covid controls. But on the protesters themselves, the government unleashed a police state brimming with new surveillance technology.
, a different story was unfolding inside homes and police stations across the country as authorities fanned out to crack down on those behind the protests — utilizing the powerful surveillance state built over the past decade and fine-tuned during the pandemic.
A few hours later, the police called her directly. She was summoned to a police station in northern Beijing, where her phone was confiscated and she underwent a series of interrogations over roughly nine hours. There is no official figure on the number of people detained following the protests, and the Chinese government has not directly acknowledged arrests even occurred.
The government has also rapidly expanded the legal obligations of internet companies to share information with authorities, requiring them to not only provide information in criminal cases but also detailed data on broader threats to the Communist Party.requiring internet companies to make regular detailed reports on trends that “mobilize” public sentiment or cause “major changes in public opinion.
In Beijing’s Chaoyang district, where Doa and other protesters gathered at the Liangmahe bridge, a 2018 police purchasing document describes “100% [surveillance] coverage,” using more than 19,200 advanced cameras. The documents, which have not been previously reported, are made public inside China but not easily accessible.
“We were only allowed to stand and could not talk to each other. They didn’t let us sleep, and if I did, they would knock on the door to wake me up,” said one Shanghai man, 25, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of further repercussions. A month before the protests began in Beijing, the city’s Ministry of Public Security issued a procurement for a 580,000-yuan data surveillance project
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