Is There Any Kind of Mass Surveillance Technology?

I just, i don't have faith in humans to be able to do all the clandestine stuff that people ascribe. This actually does tie into something that was real, 100 % real, the n s a's mass surveillance programmey. And this is one of those where, even if this technology exists, there would be high levels of collusion between people who, you know, are not friends and don't keep secrets or all kinds of stuff. I gotom looking through the patriot act stuff. Yes, thi edwards iod right? Edward snowdon stole a bunch of documents and inpo about this. It was these clandestine systems established under the patriot act using, like the pisa