How PeekYou Collects, Sells, and Shares Your Personal Data
What is PeekYou?
PeekYou is a people search engine that collates personal information from publicly available sources like social media, news sites, blogs, directories, and public records. By combining scattered fragments into consolidated profiles, PeekYou reveals name, location, social links, and potentially interests
URL
peekyou.com
Support
help@peekyou.com
Type of Data Broker
People Search
Aggression level
High
What PeekYou 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 PeekYou
Opting out of PeekYou is available but often limited and inconvenient. You’ll need to locate your profile URL or unique ID, fill out their opt-out form, and confirm via email. Even after removal, listings may reappear later—requiring repeated efforts to stay clear.
For detailed instructions, view our Opt-Out Guide.
Enroll in mePrism Privacy to ensure continuous monitoring and removal from PeekYou and other brokers.
PeekYou Privacy Risks and How to Remove Your Personal Data
How PeekYou Gathers and Aggregates Data
PeekYou scours a vast range of publicly accessible internet sources—social media platforms, blogs, news sites, directories, and public records—and stitches together these disparate data points to create comprehensive individual profiles.
Automatic Harvesting Methods
They rely on web crawling and scraping tools that collect usernames, posts, web content, and metadata automatically, drawing from diverse online content to build profile layers without explicit user opt-in.
Challenges of Removal and Value of mePrism
Removing your data from PeekYou can be done, but it's often temporary. PeekYou may re-index your information when new public data appears, meaning removal is not permanent. This highlights the value of services like mePrism, which offer continuous monitoring and proactive suppression to maintain privacy more sustainably.
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