How PrivateEye Collects, Sells, and Shares Your Personal Information
What is PrivateEye?
PrivateEye (privateeye.com) is a U.S.-based “people search” data broker that aggregates and publishes personal records — including names, addresses, phone numbers, past & present locations, birth/death/marriage certificates, criminal and court records, and known relatives or associates.
URL
privateeye.com
Support
support@privateeye.com
Type of Data Broker
People Search
Aggression level
High
What PrivateEye 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.
Companies like PrivateEye are selling your information right now.
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How to Opt Out and Remove Your Information from PrivateEye
Opting out from PrivateEye is possible but often limited and inconvenient. PrivateEye provides an opt-out form on its website, but removal may take days and there is no guarantee your data won’t reappear — especially since many records come from public documents or other brokers.
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PrivateEye Privacy Risks and How to Remove Your Personal Data
They scrape and aggregate your personal data:
PrivateEye taps into large-scale public records — including birth, death, and marriage certificates; court and criminal records; property and address registries — to compile detailed personal profiles tied to names.
They engage in automatic data harvesting:
PrivateEye combines publicly available records with other data sources, then sells or provides access to these composite profiles — including contact information (phone, address), history of locations, and known relatives/associates. It also sometimes redirects to larger people-search services (e.g., PeopleFinders) when “view details” is clicked, acting as a lead‑generator.
Opting out is possible, but removal is difficult:
While many records come from official public sources, PrivateEye may also continuously rescan publicly available data and external databases — meaning that even after removal, your information may reappear if those sources remain public or get re‑indexed.
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