How Near Collects, Sells, and Shares Your Personal Information
What is Near?
Near, a data intelligence company formerly operating as Near Intelligence, is now known as Azira. Despite the rebrand, Near continues to function as a location and behavioral data broker that aggregates personal data for use in advertising, analytics, and business insights. The company collects data such as IP addresses, device identifiers, mobile location trails, and web activity through a network of third-party sources, SDKs, and online tracking. Near’s data products are used by marketers and enterprises to target audiences based on real-world behavior.
URL
azira.com
Support
privacy@azira.com
Type of Data Broker
Marketing
Aggression level
High
What Near 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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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.
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How to Opt Out and Remove Your Information from Near
Near (now Azira) offers limited privacy controls, primarily for users in jurisdictions with privacy laws like California. Opting out typically requires submitting a request through their privacy team, with identity verification steps and potential delays. Because data is collected from multiple sources and re-aggregated, full removal is difficult and may not cover all datasets.
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Near Privacy Risks and How to Remove Your Personal Data
They scrape and aggregate your personal data:
Near collects personal data from websites, apps, and third-party partners using embedded SDKs, trackers, and purchase agreements. This includes mobile device data, geolocation, browser fingerprints, and digital identifiers. These data points are used to build rich behavioral and location profiles on individuals and groups.
They engage in automatic data harvesting:
The company relies heavily on automated data flows—via mobile apps, web scripts, cookies, and external data vendors—to collect user movement and engagement patterns. These signals are combined to identify visit frequency, dwell time, movement paths, and consumer intent, which are monetized through location intelligence services.
Opting out is possible, but removal is difficult:
Because Near sources data from many indirect and embedded channels, users often don't know their data is being collected. Even after rebranding to Azira, the company maintains historical data sets, making removal especially difficult. Privacy services like mePrism help users navigate these complex systems and ensure that opt-out requests are tracked, enforced, and kept current across all broker aliases.
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