How Addresses.com Collects, Sells, and Shares Your Personal Data
What is Addresses.com?
Addresses.com operates as a people‑search and address‑directory service offering free lookup of individuals’ mailing addresses, previous residents, neighbours and associated contact data. The site collects publicly‑available information and serves it in searchable form. Because of the wide scope of name‑address matching, property history and contact details, Addresses.com poses elevated privacy risks for individuals who prefer to limit their publicly searchable footprint.
URL
www.addresses.com
Support
www.addresses.com/optout.php
Type of Data Broker
Marketing
Aggression level
Critical
What Addresses.com collects and why it puts your privacy at risk
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This company is listed in our Top 100 Most Aggressive Data Sellers based on sensitivity and reach.
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Collects and sells basic details like your name, address, phone number, and email address.
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Collects and shares information about your family members, relationships, and household makeup.
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The company’s practices pose a heightened risk for identity theft, scams, discrimination, and profiling.
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Tracks your browsing habits, online searches, shopping behaviors, and content preferences.
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Tracks and sells your location history, movements, and device-based geolocation data.
The risks shown are based on the types of personal data this company collects, sells, or shares.
Even limited data collection can expose you to serious privacy threats.
How to Opt Out and Remove Your Data from Addresses.com
Addresses.com does provide an opt‑out mechanism, but the process is somewhat cumbersome and doesn’t guarantee total removal. You can submit a request via the site’s opt‑out form. You should monitor the site afterwards for re‑appearance of your data. The removal process may take several days and may require verification.
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Addresses.com Privacy Risks and How to Remove Your Personal Data
They scrape and aggregate your personal data:
Addresses.com compiles information from multiple public and commercial sources – such as property records, address directories, phone‑listing databases, previous resident registries and other accessible data sets – to build searchable individual profiles and associated household data.
They engage in automatic data harvesting:
The service appears to rely on automated indexing of publicly available address and property information, merging multiple data points (name, address, prior occupants, neighbour relations) to enrich the profile. It may also draw from third‑party aggregators and people‑search networks (for example, its parent company is linked to PeopleConnect/Intelius)
Opting out is possible, but removal is difficult:
Because Addresses.com aggregates data from a wide array of sources, once your information is indexed it may reappear via refreshed data ingestion. The opt‑out must be repeated and monitored. Services like mePrism help by tracking multiple broker listings, automating removal requests, and maintaining awareness of re‑listings – reducing the burden on the individual to repeatedly check multiple sites.
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