How GovWarrantSearch Collects, Sells, and Shares Your Personal Information
What is GovWarrantSearch?
GovWarrantSearch (operating via the website govwarrantsearch.org) is a people‑search style data broker that markets itself as offering access to “thousands of court orders, criminal files and more than 1.2 billion records” through a paid search interface. The site states it is not affiliated with any government agency, despite the “Gov” prefix.
URL
govwarrantsearch.org
Support
govwarrantsearch.org/contact
Type of Data Broker
People Search
Aggression level
High
What GovWarrantSearch 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.
How to Opt Out and Remove Your Information from GovWarrantSearch
GovWarrantSearch offers an opt‑out path via its affiliated broker InfoTracer. However, the process is often limited (e.g., self‑verification required), may not remove all instances of data, and can reappear over time. Because this broker aggregates criminal and warrant‑related records, complete removal is challenging and may require repeated follow‑up or paid monitoring.
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GovWarrantSearch Privacy Risks and How to Remove Your Personal Data
They scrape and aggregate your personal data:
GovWarrantSearch claims to pull together “thousands of court orders, criminal files and more than 1.2 billion records” from multiple, publicly‑available sources and aggregate them into searchable reports. By combining county, state and possibly federal criminal records, the broker offers one‑click tool access to data traditionally dispersed across many jurisdictions.
They engage in automatic data harvesting:
While the site does not publicly detail all of its data‑ingestion mechanisms, as a typical people‑search service it likely uses automated querying of public records databases, data licensing agreements, and aggregation APIs to compile large datasets that can be searched online. The site’s offering of “instant reports” in less than 30 seconds suggests a high degree of automated backend processing.
Opting out is possible, but removal is difficult:
Because GovWarrantSearch aggregates data from many sources and maintains searchable profiles, removal is difficult. Even after an opt‑out, residual copies or new indexing may resurface. This means manual monitoring or use of a specialized removal service (such as mePrism) can offer value by providing ongoing oversight, tracking re‑appearances, and helping facilitate multiple removal attempts. Without such services you may need to revisit the opt‑out path repeatedly and monitor search engine results for re‑inclusion.
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