No, and I&#x27;m not sure why anyone would expect they would, given that the flowering of mass surveillance and crystallization of opinions around it happened in the wake of the much larger attacks of September 11, 2001.<p>Well, except that US <i>global</i> mass surveillance, presumably targeting groups including IS, has <i>existed</i> for many years, and is <i>least</i> restrained when it comes to non-US targets, and yet <i>failed</i> to provide information sufficient to prevent this attack (apparently, the information that <i>an</i> attack in the West was planned did turn up, but from Iraqi intelligence, not our mass surveillance, and not specific enough to identify even the targeted country.)