> every address you've ever lived at, and the dates you lived there.

Well cross Japan off my list. I would not be able to produce that residence list under any circumstances.

I can recommend keeping a list from now on. It's helped me quite a few times.

Anything that needs that data I can do without. Besides that, they'd never believe it in the first place.

DHS requires 7 or so years of residence and travel history for Trusted Traveler Programs like Global Entry.

Well, I'm going to have to do without that then. This is no great loss because I had already decided to forego traveling to the US because the way the border guards treated me on my last visit was enough to make me decide I didn't need that kind of headache. They still owe me a pair of boots.

Yup, I think it's 5 years but yes.

Helps identity verification (or theft I guess)

Would have to be able to do without many jobs in the USA! (Obviously glad though you’ve got your options and they’re sufficient.)

Also recommend to others keeping a list of all places from the past seven years.

WTF is it that employers think they can get out of the last 7 years of addresses? That's private information, absolutely none of their business.

It helps catch attempted identity theft. Lots of people who are not eligible for employment steal the identities of those who are. But they will have to make up any data they don’t know, or that is inapplicable because the true holder of that identity died a while ago.

It's used for background checks to identify relevant criminal records, debt records, etc.

Australia generally requires at least 10 years for some things.