Exactly the network is not a game

When I mentioned The Net and the identity theft, and persecution in it not being a game, I meant it as compared to The Game movie, which I have mentioned in my post.

The movie I wrote about doesn't deal with online data in the modern sense, but I think I know what you mean. I myself originally come from an Eastern European country, where, if you aren't a right wing conservative or are openly against Kremlin narratives and politics, you end up being harassed online, and sometimes even by security service in real life (there was a very distinct case of guys who decided to have an organization and go by name "The Left Patriots" back in 2013, which was basically their only offence). Even without all the materials provided by Snowden that have been made public by journalists it was clear that the first place anyone who doesn't like your views would turn to are your profiles on social networks. As the time went on, the ongoing disaster of people leaving their data online had become clearer, as Cambridge Analytica and Pegasus cases prove - the latter had even been linked to had been used against opposition politicians in some Eastern European countries.

And then there are, of course, stalkers, which I don't think I should be commenting on here since I don't think I myself have been stalked, hence it's better to leave it for those people who have dealt with that in their lives, even though sometimes, in my opinion, there is a difficult to discern difference between being harassed because of your views voiced online and stalking.

One thing that comes to mind that deals with the amount of data available online about a person and how it can be used is the Be Right Back episode from Black Mirror series. I think, in a way it's educational, same as some Mr. Robot episodes; particularly where Elliot manages to collect an information on his therapist.