How Pipl Collects, Sells, and Shares Your Personal Data
What is Pipl?
Pipl is a data‑broker and identity‑verification service provider whose platform aggregates large amounts of personal and publicly available data to offer business‑facing identity insights, people‑search results, and risk verification tools. According to removal‑guides, Pipl collects information from public records, social‑media profiles, online directories and other third‑party sources.
URL
www.pipl.com
Support
privacy@pipl.com
Type of Data Broker
People Search
Aggression level
Critical
What Pipl 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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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 Pipl
You can request an opt‑out of your personal information from Pipl’s public search/aggregation results. However, the process is often convoluted, may involve verification steps, and does not guarantee complete deletion of all underlying records. Many users will need to revisit annually to ensure suppression.
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Pipl Privacy Risks and How to Remove Your Personal Data
They scrape and aggregate your personal data:
Pipl compiles personal information by indexing and scraping a broad array of sources including deep‑web databases, online public records, social‑media profiles, directories, and third‑party data‑vendor feeds. This aggregation allows Pipl to build searchable profiles for business clients and people‑search users.
They engage in automatic data harvesting:
Beyond basic public records, Pipl uses techniques such as web crawling, API integrations and combining disparate data‑sets (for example social‑media data, public filings, business directories) to enrich profiles further. These methods allow large‑scale consolidation of disparate information about an individual, often without that individual’s active participation.
Opting out is possible, but removal is difficult:
Because Pipl sources data from many publicly available and third‑party systems, asking for removal often means only suppressing your profile rather than erasing all underlying data. Many individuals face repeated re‑indexing or new data appearing. Professional removal and monitoring services (such as mePrism) can help track your presence, submit opt‑out requests, and monitor future appearances. Given the high exposure and commercial use of your data, leveraging a specialist service can provide meaningful additional protection beyond a one‑time request.
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