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Summary
The Data Erasure Counterplan Affirmative position gives debaters two options on how to respond to
the Negative teams advocacy for a counterplan.
The first option is to create a permutation of the plan and the benefits of the counterplan. This
particular permutation invokes Rule 1, which requires warrants in most situations, but would allow law
enforcement officials to be excused from acquiring a warrant in certain highly threatening, yet often
unpredictable, situations. The permutation is a tool used by the Affirmative team to acknowledge that
the issues of secondhand surveillance and security are valid, but that the original Affirmative plan
does not prevent other methods from being put in place that will solve those additional problems.
The second option is to reject the counterplan entirely by explaining why it doesnt solve the problems
that it claims to solve. The Affirmative position claims that continuing to collect data without initial
restrictions still allows for a total surveillance state in which the public is not afforded any right to
privacy. It continues on by saying that certain elements of the counterplan that are meant to provide
privacy, actually fail to do so. This reasoning applies to all provisions including altitude, persistency or
recording, and time limits after recording has occurred. The second option also allows the Affirmative
team to claim that the counterplan has negative impacts where the Affirmatives plan has positive
impacts. The Affirmative could claim that their plan further strengthens the balance of powers
between various branches of government. In contrast, the Affirmative would claim that the
counterplan prevents this balancing of power, and thus could solve perception issues, but not the
deep structural issues that contribute to racist policies by law enforcement.
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Glossary
Curtail Reduce in extent or quantity; impose a restriction on.
CCTV Closed-circuit television. Surveillance cameras that record on a closed circuit, such that only
the people with access to the system can watch the footage.
Curtilage An area of land attached to a house and forming one enclosure with it.
Data Retention The storage of data gathered through surveillance operations.
Fourth Amendment The part of the Bill of Rights that prohibits unreasonable searches and
seizures and requires any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause.
Jurisprudence The theory or philosophy of law.
Rhetoric Language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience, but often
regarded as lacking in sincerity or meaningful content.
Ubiquitous Present, appearing, or found everywhere.
Warrant (Search) A legal document authorizing a police officer or other official to enter and search
a premises.
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No Solvency Privacy
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[___] Drones can resolve details as small as six inches from 20,000 feet. The 350 foot limit in
the counterplan would not solve for privacy.
Anthony, 2013
(DARPA shows off 1.8-gigapixel surveillance drone, can spot a terrorist from 20,000 feet; Extreme
Tech; January 28, 2013; http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/146909-darpa-shows-off-1-8-gigapixelsurveillance-drone-can-spot-a-terrorist-from-20000-feet)
DARPA and the US Army have taken the wraps off ARGUS-IS, a 1.8-gigapixel video
surveillance platform that can resolve details as small as six inches from an altitude of 20,000
feet (6km). ARGUS is by far the highest-resolution surveillance platform in the world, and probably
the highest-resolution camera in the world, period. ARGUS, which would be attached to some kind of
unmanned UAV (such as the Predator) and flown at an altitude of around 20,000 feet, can observe an
area of 25 square kilometers (10sqmi) at any one time. If ARGUS was hovering over New York
City, it could observe half of Manhattan. Two ARGUS-equipped drones, and the US could keep
an eye on the entirety of Manhattan, 24/7. It is the definition of observe in this case that will blow
your mind, though. With an imaging unit that totals 1.8 billion pixels, ARGUS captures video (12 fps)
that is detailed enough to pick out birds flying through the sky, or a lost toddler wandering
around. These 1.8 gigapixels are provided via 368 smaller sensors, which DARPA/BAE says are just
5-megapixel smartphone camera sensors. These 368 sensors are focused on the ground via four
image-stabilized telescopic lenses.
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[___] The plan reverses racist trends, while the counterplan fails to do so.
Bernd, 2015
(Candice; Proposed Rules Regulating Domestic Drone Use Lack Police Warrant Requirement; Feb
24; www.truth-out.org/news/item/29250-proposed-rules-regulating-domestic-drone-use-lack-policewarrant-requirement)
"You're not just talking about the physical border, you're talking about an area that encompasses
many major cities that have large minority populations, and the idea that these drones can be flown
with little or no privacy protections really mean that, people, just by virtue of living in that region are
somehow accepting that they have a right to less privacy," she said. African-American communities
could well feel the disproportionate impacts of the integrated use of domestic drones and
other surveillance in the coming years, as technologies such as StingRay are already being used
mostly in the ongoing war on drugs to track those suspected of selling and buying drugs. The drug
war has long negatively impacted communities of color, based on racialized drug policies and
racial discrimination by law enforcement; two-thirds of all those convicted of drug crimes are
people of color, despite similar rates of drug use among whites and people of color. These alreadyexisting racial disparities in intrusive policing tactics and deployment of surveillance
technologies are one of the primary reasons civil liberties experts are saying the government
often gets it backward when thinking about privacy issues: deploying intrusive technologies first,
and coming up with privacy policies governing their use afterward (when they may already be
violating many people's civil rights). "What we see with StingRays is the same phenomenon that
we're seeing with [UAS], where federal agencies are using them," Guliani said. "State and local
agencies are using them. There's federal dollars that are going to buy them, and we're kind of having
the privacy debate after the fact with very little information."
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[___] The plan requires warrant checks that help dismantle racism, no judicial oversight in
counterplan requires law enforcement implementation and can lead to cultural racism.
Barndt, 1991
(Joseph R. Barndt co-director of Ministry Working to Dismantle Racism "Dismantling Racism" p. 155)
To study racism is to study walls. We have looked at barriers and fences, restraints and limitations,
ghettos and prisons. The prison of racism confines us all, people of color and white people
alike. It shackles the victimizer as well as the victim. The walls forcibly keep people of color and
white people separate from each other; in our separate prisons we are all prevented from achieving
the human potential God intends for us. The limitations imposed on people of color by poverty,
subservience, and powerlessness are cruel, inhuman, and unjust; the effects of uncontrolled
power, privilege, and greed, which are the marks of our white prison, will inevitably destroy us as well.
But we have also seen that the walls of racism can be dismantled. We are not condemned to
an inexorable fate, but are offered the vision and the possibility of freedom. Brick by brick,
stone by stone, the prison of individual, institutional, and cultural racism can be destroyed.
You and I are urgently called to join the efforts of those who know it is time to teardown, once and for
all, the walls of racism. The danger point of self-destruction seems to be drawing even more near.
The results of centuries of national and worldwide conquest and colonialism, of military buildups and
violent aggression, of overconsumption and environmental destruction may be reaching a point of no
return. A small and predominantly white minority of the global population derives its power and
privilege from the sufferings of vast majority of peoples of all color. For the sake of the world and
ourselves, we dare not allow it to continue.
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