Regulatory observability in cross-border vehicle-data governance: coded legal prescriptions and aggregate GNSS audit

Supporting data and code for the manuscript “Regulatory observability and the limits of risk signals in cross-border vehicle data governance”. This version contains a purposively selected corpus of 65 coded legal prescriptions from seven Mainland Chinese, Hengqin, and Macao instruments; a legal-source manifest and codebook; both independent GNSS-observability ratings; a 13-row adjudication log; reproducibility code and notebook; aggregate GNSS audit outputs; and three 600-dpi TIFF figures. The independent pre-adjudication ratings agreed on 52 of 65 labels (80.0%; Cohen’s κ = 0.356). After adjudication, GNSS directly establishes none of the 65 prescriptions, partially informs 11, and does not inform 54. Other interpretive fields retain the primary coder’s coding; agreement on those fields is not claimed. The GNSS analysis uses a research-team-collected, pseudonymized extract of 65,535 records associated with 10 vehicles. The research team holds the right to use the extract for scholarly publication. The source export query and total, timestamp provenance and time zone, speed unit, and coordinate reference systems were not verified. Raw trajectories, precise coordinates, and vehicle-level identifiers are not included in this public archive because pseudonymization does not eliminate location-privacy risk. These materials support descriptive evidence-observability analyses; they do not establish a cross-border data transfer, legal compliance, or a breach. Reproducing the GNSS aggregates requires access to the non-public source extract from the research team. Version v4 resolves the independent coding disagreements and adds the original ratings, adjudication record, and updated reproducibility outputs.