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PhillyDom
Since: Jun, 2010
PaulA
Since: Jan, 2010

It's a short story. I read it in the 1980s, but I think it dates back further, to when computers were a new thing.
It's a science fiction story set in a future where all records have been computerized. The protagonist is the victim of some small error (a false overdue notice from the library, something like that), and when they try to get it corrected, things get worse and worse until their entire life gets destroyed (and maybe they wind up dead?). And the whole time to people in charge of the computer system insist that of course it's more reliable than human record-keepers and never makes any mistakes.