I sympathise with the poster's irritation, password requirements are proliferating and rising inexorably and increasingly they are a real hindrance and a pain if one just wants to do something one finds of low significance. Frankly, I can't think of any reason why I should hide my telephone number and/or address because both are readily available through at least two channels.
Only yesterday I was logging onto a site where my password was rejected at least three times before finally being rejected - I found out that they have switched to at the outset (new users) ask for the multi/mixed case/character passwords, so instead of inviting me to change my password they simply rejected the old one for a bit until I had persisted long enough. To me this is not acceptable - I am keeping my old password because even though non-compliant with the latest ideology it is, in my opinion, so unlikely to be cracked.