I'd love to know what kind of false information you're enjoying sending them, and how!
- Put in a mail forwarding card with your name from a former address to a random real address like a Starbucks, Taco Bell, apartment complex w/o unit number, etc.
- Change the billing address of a credit card or utility and allow to sit for one billing cycle. Works best if you have e-statements. They will send a physical confirmation to the address and it will most likely go in the trash but not guaranteed.
- once a quarter you can update your information with the credit bureaus and they will Happily record it. Later you can say you never lived there and they will remove the info - but only from the databases used in credit decisions
These are the ones most effective because there is almost no filtering, just a bunch of automated processes collecting and distributing. Just make sure there are one or two “facts” that the data quality algorithms can use to link your “new” data with existing profiles.
if you have the time, you should make a complimentary “solution” read me page for this post.
deletion really does seem to be an unwinnable proposition, so flooding with false data is a great approach. can this be automated?
Anyway, one of the verifiers is past addresses, so this sort of thing could prove a problem when applying for jobs in the UK.
Tories gotta tory - put a private firm between people and job applications, demand they give all their ID data to that firm. Oh, and the firms all have recent mass data leaks.
It's a core part of several gov departments (passports, drivers licensing, benefits, taxes) to be able to ID people and the gov have all the data with which to do it. Crazy.
how is value defined in this context?
Generally, in court, "value" means "market value" expressed in the currency of the court's country. Often the penalties for various levels of fraud are based on the value (= market value) of the gain -- for example, hypothetically, the law might state that if the value was under $1,000 it's a misdemeanor rather than a felony or that if the value was under $100 you can't be sentenced to prison time.
Something like my own privacy which has value only to one person (me) does not have market value.
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Perhaps, but I would have assumed creating a USPS mail forward under false pretenses like this would be fraudulent. They seem to take such thing seriously.
GP also mentions in a sibling comment about what to do if you need address verification for something else (which is presumably of value):
> All you need is a passport or driver’s license and a utility bill with current address dated within 60 days. Most of the time the utility bill can be a “photocopy” and you just change the date or address to what you need. DMV is about the only place that needs an original document and will be familiar with what bills from your area look and feel like (because they most likely live nearby also and routinely handle documents from people in the same area as you).
Doctoring a document like this also seems illegal.