I have been the designated compliance officer for a regulated company (HIPAA, hoooo) and it was not literally the worst thing I've ever had to do for business but was very low on the value-produced-per-brainsweat-expended spectrum.
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I also used to write Compliance departments letters for fun, mostly at banks. (It's a long story.) It is very much the case that as the technology of gaming a regulation is circulated in the relevant community that that regulation starts to get gamed.
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There exist forums on which people-who-owe-or-are-believed-to-owe money organize and swap form letters for exchanging with banks/debt collectors. That was probably an unanticipated consequence of consumer protection regulation in the financial sector (FDCPA + FCRA, specifically).
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A very annoying and anti-consumer consequence of gaming of those regulations is that the industry was so annoyed they got the regulators to allow them to point blank ignore "form letters", which the industry interprets very, very broadly.
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As a consequence, a non-lawyer who writes in and is well-informed about consumer protection regulation (e.g. can accurately cite the authority for claims) has to dumb it down so that the credit reporting agency doesn't respond with a We Ignore Form Letters form letter.
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