Resolution resolved: The United States federal government should substantially curtail its domestic surveillance. Violations

SURVEILLANCE IS GATHERING INFO TO CONTROL (LYON)_

Surveillance is systemtic, routine observation of individuals for the purpose of influence or control

Richards 13 Neil M. Richards, Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law. Harvard Law Review May, 2013 126 Harv. L. Rev. 1934 SYMPOSIUM: PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY: THE DANGERS OF SURVEILLANCE lexis

What, then, is surveillance? Scholars working throughout the English-speaking academy have produced a thick descriptive literature examining the nature, causes, and implications of the age of surveillance. n6 Working under the umbrella term of "surveillance studies," these scholars represent both the social sciences and humanities, with sociologists making many of the most significant contributions. n7

Reviewing the vast surveillance studies literature, Professor David Lyon concludes that surveillance is primarily about power, but it is also about personhood. n8 Lyon offers a definition of surveillance as "the focused, systematic and routine attention to personal details for purposes of influence, management, protection or direction." n9 Four aspects of this definition are noteworthy, as they expand our understanding of what surveillance is and what its purposes are. First, it is focused on learning information about individuals. Second, surveillance is systematic; it is intentional rather than random or arbitrary. Third, surveillance is routine - a part of the ordinary administrative apparatus that characterizes modern societies. n10 Fourth, surveillance can have a wide variety of purposes - rarely totalitarian domination, but more typically subtler forms of influence or control. n11