How BackgroundCheckers Collects, Sells, and Shares Your Personal Data
What is BackgroundCheckers?
BackgroundCheckers.net is a people‑search and data broker site that compiles and sells extensive personal and background‑check information about individuals across the United States. If you’re concerned about what data BackgroundCheckers.net collects or how to initiate BackgroundCheckers.net data removal, you’ll need to understand how your personal, contact, legal, address and associate data ends up in their database
URL
BackgroundCheckers.net
Support
backgroundcheckers.net/customer_support
Type of Data Broker
People Search
Aggression level
Critical
What BackgroundCheckers collects and how 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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Collects and monetizes data related to your income, spending habits, debts, and financial status.
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The company’s practices pose a heightened risk for identity theft, scams, discrimination, and profiling.
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Collects and distributes your work history, job titles, company affiliations, and professional connections.
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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 BackgroundCheckers
You can submit an opt‑out request to BackgroundCheckers.net, but expect some effort and follow‑up. The process is available yet removal may not prevent future re‑listings.
Enroll in mePrism Privacy to ensure continuous monitoring and removal from BackgroundCheckers and other brokers.
BackgroundCheckers Privacy Risks and How to Remove Your Personal Data
They scrape and aggregate your personal data:
BackgroundCheckers.net aggregates large‑scale public records (court filings, arrest records, property/asset records) combined with commercial data and other brokers’ data. According to guide resources, their database reportedly covers billions of records from thousands of sources. This includes names, aliases, addresses, criminal history, associates, phone numbers, and more.
They engage in automatic data harvesting:
The company uses automated means such as web scraping, data feeds and public record APIs to ingest data. Their privacy policy notes collection of “Traffic Data” (IP address, event data) when users visit their site. They also build profiles by linking contact info, historical address data, family/associate links, and criminal record information, making data searchable and cross‑referenced.
Opting out is possible, but removal is difficult:
Once your data has been ingested, removing it is possible but not guaranteed to stay removed. Re‑listings often occur, and many similar brokers exist. The process typically involves locating your listing, submitting an opt‑out form, verifying via email, and then monitoring for re‑appearances. Employing a service like mePrism helps streamline the removal process across multiple brokers, provide ongoing monitoring and reduce cost/time compared to doing it manually.
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