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Utopia
2014 · TV series · 5 seasons
Created by Rob Gleisner, Rob Sitch, Santo Cilauro
Set inside the offices of the “Nation Building Authority”, a federal government organisation responsible for overseeing major infrastructure projects, Utopia explores that moment when bureaucracy and grand dreams collide.
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Absolutely. Here's some examples of what HR are like, from the Australian documentary series "Utopia": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_tJg3tSgQk
IIRC that topic was discussed in an episode of Utopia
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3163562/
The OA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_OA, Tales from the Loop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_Loop, Maniac https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maniac_(miniseries), Utopia (2014 British TV series) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8Vu3Hyv_Vk&list=PL_jIDr2tZiuRHlp-bLwYNgWaFAp6dR7_Y
> How do we prevent (4)
• By ensuring there is always an opposing power.
• By maintaining democracy, by which I mean the tenet of electing governments from the citizenry as well as by the citizenry, and specifically rather than any of the oligarchical forms.
• By maintaining the rule of law.
The consequences being, if all encryption is backdoored, then any encryption used by politicians is by definition eavesdroppable by their opponents and enemies. Since all politicians thrive in a web of mendacity and confidences, they have a strong incentive for strong encryption, and will eventually terminate/abandon legislation that weakens it.
Any politician that threatens otherwise is therefore a) grandstanding, and/or b) using the issue to leverage/negotiate something else.
Corollaries:
• Any government seriously implementing such a plan is operating as an oligarchy rather than a democracy, and will have plans to defend themselves from the surveillance imposed on the citizens.
• The first instinct of every would-be oligarch is to undermine the machinery of democracy and compromise the rule of law.
c.f. Utopia (Australia, 2014) Season 4 Episode 4 "Mission Creeps", and probably at least one Jim Hacker moment.
Agreed -- trust has to be earned, but definitely hasn't been. Quite the opposite. I thought it was very unfortunate that the Australian Nurses' Association was asked to provide their endorsement of the government BS spin at the launch of the app. Wasn't surprised that the AMA did though. The promotional video is hilarious -- indistinguishable from an episode of "Utopia" -- LOL.
Episode 3 of Utopia?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(Australian_TV_series)#Season_1_(2014)