Six episodes lay out the machinery of American surveillance, from NSA data collection to the corporate systems that track purchases, location, and online behavior. The series opens with the case that privacy as most people imagine it no longer exists, then works through the legal and technical history that got the country here, citing Edward Snowden's leaks as the moment the scale of government monitoring became public record. Interviews and archival material trace how national security justifications after 9/11 expanded surveillance authority, and how private companies built parallel tracking systems that operate with far less oversight than intelligence agencies. Each installment treats a different layer of the system, moving from federal programs to the data brokers and tech platforms that monitor everyday transactions. The throughline is practical rather than alarmist: an argument that citizens should understand exactly what is being collected about them and by whom, since the series treats the surveillance state as an established fact to be mapped rather than a hypothesis to be proven.