""CCTV networks, facial-recognition systems, applications designed to capture or log private user messages, and systems assessing citizens' lifestyle patterns and behavioral profiles collectively provide the Islamic Republic's security agencies with the means for broad and precise monitoring of the population," the analysis says. Put another way, Holistic Resilience's Mahdi Saremifar says simply, "They want to have a centralized system that monitors daily life-lifestyle surveillance.""
"The NIN was developed as a core component of the Iranian regime's mechanisms for control, designed to provide Iran-specific apps, web services, and digital platforms to monitor Iranians constantly and control the information they can access while simultaneously making it much more difficult to get information out of the country to the international community. The NIN has an isolationist architecture that also prevents connections from outside Iran."
The National Information Network (NIN) and an expanding surveillance infrastructure use CCTV, facial recognition, messaging-capture apps, and behavioral profiling to monitor citizens comprehensively. The NIN provides Iran-specific apps, web services, and digital platforms that control accessible information and hinder information leaving the country. The NIN's isolationist architecture prevents external connections. In early January, a severe connectivity blackout took the NIN offline, disrupting government websites, landline telephone networks, and privileged-access SIM cards. The blackout reached an unprecedented scale. As some connections return, authorities are moving toward whitelisting, restricting internet access to approved sites and apps.
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