It looks like the 1920s sci fi novel "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin is one of the earliest explorations of mass surveillance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)

It looks like the 1920s sci fi novel "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin is one of the earliest explorations of mass surveillance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)