At least for me, this is what I've considered as the mass surveillance threat model the entire time - both for government and corporate surveillance. I've never thought some tie-wearing deskizen was going to be particularly interested in me for "arrest", selling more crap, cancelling my insurance policies, etc. I've considered such discrete anthropomorphic narratives as red herrings used for coping (similar to how "I have nothing to hide" posits some focus on a few specific things, rather than big brother sitting on your shoulder continuously judging you in general). Rather I've always thought of the threat actor as algorithmic mass analytics performed at scale, either contemporarily or post-hoc on all the stored data silos, with resulting pressure applied gradually in subtle ways.