From the technical perspective, big data investigation is essentially the result of criminal technology enabling investigation activities. Human beings have been using scientific and technological means to investigate criminal cases for a long time. Looking back on the history of criminal science and technology, it is found that criminal technology mainly evolves along two ideas, personal identification and verbal judgment. From the perspective of technology history, the author dialectically considers the human rights dilemma of big data investigation. The lack of criminal technology will lead to inhuman investigation methods, and excessive superstition in technology will also lead to unjust, false and wrong cases. According to the current trend of technology research and development, there will be more investigation modes that touch the bottom line of human rights in the future, so concerns and pessimistic remarks about infringement of big data investigation are rampant. The understanding of criminal technology is the premise and basis of regulating criminal technology. In the future, we can regulate criminal technology from three angles: power regulation, right protection and technical standard.