No it's more like: [Secret impersonal machine-learning algorithm follows links on social networks, private phone calls, and financial transactions and decides

No it's more like: [Secret impersonal machine-learning algorithm follows links on social networks, private phone calls, and financial transactions and decides you should be put on the "threat" list and you (and potentially your friends) are continually surveilled and treated with extreme negative prejudice in every interaction with public servants. You attempt to complain and learn of the evidence against you, but you are stonewalled by official denials and national security.]