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[–] isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

God. Does anyone remember the 1995 film The Net?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113957/

When Angela Bennett, a computer programmer, stumbles upon government secrets, she finds herself on the run from an unknown enemy hell-bent on destroying her completely.

Spoilers for a 30 year old movie:

spoiler

Basically there's a shadowy corpo-government organization that maintains power through altering digital records.

Some examples include convincing a conservative Senator to kill himself by altering digital records to convince him he's HIV-positive. Later they target the protagonist by deleting her records from official government databases and attaching her photo and other info to an alias, an imaginary person wanted for a litany of serious felonies.

It seemed outlandish at the time, but that's really where we are headed.