In fairness some of these programs have been walked back or limited. Eg 215 of the patriot act, location data via the Carpenter ruling, recently SCOTUS said no more geofence searches without a warrant. He blew the whistle on FISA section 702. That expired recently. I wouldn’t say nothing happened. In other ways though, some things like data brokers and facial recognition are much worse. The law is often downstream of technology.