It's not fraud or libel, it's an unavoidable problem with in-band signalling [1]. I assume the government entry system doesn't have an explicit way to set the

It's not fraud or libel, it's an unavoidable problem with in-band signalling [1]. I assume the government entry system doesn't have an explicit way to set the data as missing, so they work around it like this. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-band_signaling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-band_signaling