1AC Economy Advantage – Additionally, NSA surveillance has created a global move towards “data nationalization” which threatens to fragment the internet. Omtzigt, Dutch politician, 2015, by Mr Pieter Omtzigt, on Legal (Pieter Herman “Explanatory memorandum rapporteur” Committee Affairs and Human Rights, Mass surveillance Report, 1/26/2015, 108. In response to growing discontent with US surveillance, one political response has been to push for more and The Snowden disclosures have “technological sovereignty” “data nationalisation”. therefore had serious implications on the development of the Internet and hastened trends to the Internet to the detriment of the development of a wide, vast and easily accessible “balkanize” online network. The Internet as we knew it, or believed we knew it, is a global platform for exchange of information, open and free debate, and commerce. But Brazil and the European Union, for example, announced plans to lay a $185 million undersea fibre-optic cable between them to thwart US surveillance. German politicians also called for the development of a for “German internet” German data to circumvent foreign servers and the information to stay on networks that customers’ would fully be under control. Germany’s 159 Russia passed a law obliging internet companies to store the data of Russian users on servers in Russia.160 After a six-month inquiry following the Snowden disclosures, the European Parliament adopted a report on the NSA surveillance programme in February 2014 161, which argues that the EU should suspend bank data and on data privacy (voluntary data ‘Safe Harbour’ agreements protection standards for non-EU companies transferring EU personal data to the US) with the citizens’ United States. MEPs added that the European Parliament should only give its consent to the EU-US free trade deal (TTIP) that is being negotiated, if the US fully respects EU fundamental rights. citizens’ The European Parliament seeks tough new data protection rules that would place US companies in the difficult situation of having to check with EU authorities before complying with mandatory requests made by US authorities. The European Committee also advocated the creation of Parliament’s LIBE a data that would require all data from European consumers to be stored or “European cloud” processed within Europe, or even within the individual country of the consumer concerned. Some nations, such as Australia, France, South Korea, and India, have already implemented a patchwork of data-localisation requirements according to two legal scholars.162
1AC – Economy Advantage Additionally, NSA surveillance has created a global move towards “data nationalization” which threatens to fragment the internet. Omtzigt, Dutch politician, 2015, (Pieter Herman “Explanatory memorandum by Mr Pieter Omtzigt, rapporteur” Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, Mass surveillance Report, 1/26/2015, 108. In response to growing discontent with US surveillance, one political response has been to push for more “technological sovereignty” and “data nationalisation”. The Snowden disclosures have therefore had serious implications on the development of the Internet and hastened trends to “balkanize” the Internet to the detriment of the development of a wide, vast and easily accessible online network. The Internet as we knew it, or believed we knew it, is a global platform for exchange of information, open and free debate, and commerce. But Brazil and the European Union, for example, announced plans to lay a $185 million undersea fibre-optic cable between them to thwart US surveillance. German politicians also called for the development of a “German internet” for German customers’ data to circumvent foreign servers and the information to stay on networks that would fully be under Germany’s control. 159 Russia passed a law obliging internet companies to store the data of Russian users on servers in Russia.160 After a six-month inquiry following the Snowden disclosures, the European Parliament adopted a report on the NSA surveillance programme in February 2014 161, which argues that the EU should suspend bank data and ‘Safe Harbour’ agreements on data privacy (voluntary data protection standards for non-EU companies transferring EU citizens’ personal data to the US) with the United States. MEPs added that the European Parliament should only give its consent to the EU-US free trade deal (TTIP) that is being negotiated, if the US fully respects EU citizens’ fundamental rights. The European Parliament seeks tough new data protection rules that would place US companies in the difficult situation of having to check with EU authorities before complying with mandatory requests made by US authorities. The European Parliament’s LIBE Committee also advocated the creation of a “European data cloud” that would require all data from European consumers to be stored or processed within Europe, or even within the individual country of the consumer concerned. Some nations, such as Australia, France, South Korea, and India, have already implemented a patchwork of data-localisation requirements according to two legal scholars.162