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Some do it so that your resume wouldn't end up in spam or junk folder. It happens, many innocent emails go to spam folder too.
If the purpose of the form is to avoid this, there would not be request for much of your information, just little details and there would be a space to drop your resume.

When the information required gets too much, it's really laziness on the part of the hiring officer, even though there are softwares to sort the resumes, most of them are still lazy to do the little scrutiny that would be left to them.

In few cases, recruiters may require additional information e.g age for some certain jobs which most people do not include in their CVs. But if there's nothing that special on the form and it's the repetition of usual information on general CV, then I agree with @Urguy, it might just be laziness to peruse CVs

The answer is laziness from personal experience. Laziness to go through the CVs

Honestly I was trying to apply for a job role today and I quitted along the line because they were requesting for too much information and asking too much questions. Would the recruiter die if he/she had stated email address for CVs to be forwarded to? So annoying