How Councilon Collects, Sells, and Shares Your Personal Information
What is Councilon?
Councilon is a people‑search and background‑check data broker. The site aggregates personal information from public records, social media, legal filings and other data sources, then makes this information searchable online. Councilon describes itself as ‘the world’s leading search engine platform that provides real‑time and reliable data on people online.’ It’s a people search site that collects and displays people’s personal information online.
URL
councilon.com
Support
control@councilon.com
Type of Data Broker
People Search
Aggression level
Critical
What Councilon collects and how your privacy is 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.
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How to Opt Out and Remove Your Information from Councilon
Councilon provides an opt‑out mechanism through its “Control Profile” feature. However, removal is often limited or inconvenient, and your data may reappear later. Many users report repeated opt‑out steps needed
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Councilon Privacy Risks and How to Remove Your Personal Data
They scrape and aggregate your personal data:
Councilon gathers personal information from public records (property, court, bankruptcy), social media, online resumes, license databases and other publicly‑accessible data sources. This data is aggregated into unified profiles searchable by name, state, or other identifiers. Because it combines multiple data points (name, address, contact, history, associations) it creates detailed individual profiles.
They engage in automatic data harvesting:
The service appears to operate automated pipelines that scrape or ingest public records, web pages, social media profiles, and then index and update. For example, one opt‑out guide notes the service offers “notification alerts to find out when information within people’s profiles changes.” This implies ongoing data ingestion (via APIs, web crawls or feed ingestion) rather than only static records.
Opting out is possible, but removal is difficult:
Although Councilon provides an opt‑out link, full deletion is not guaranteed. The site may refresh its database regularly, causing your profile to reappear even after opting out. Therefore using a service like mePrism can add value: continuous monitoring, repeat removal across multiple brokers, and alerting when your data resurfaces.
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