How RecordsFinder Collects, Sells, and Shares Your Personal Information
What is RecordsFinder?
RecordsFinder is a people‑search and public‑records aggregation service that advertises access to “over 2 billion records” spanning federal, state, city, and private sources. The site enables searches for names, addresses, phone numbers, and detailed background reports (criminal, civil, property, vital records).
URL
recordsfinder.com
Support
privacy@recordsfinder.com
Type of Data Broker
People Search
Aggression level
Critical
What RecordsFinder 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 RecordsFinder
RecordsFinder does provide an opt‑out mechanism, but the process is often limited, requires identity verification, and removal is not guaranteed to be complete or permanent. You may need to revisit periodically because your information may get re‑indexed.
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RecordsFinder Privacy Risks and How to Remove Your Personal Data
They scrape and aggregate your personal data:
RecordsFinder states that it compiles publicly available records from state and local law enforcement departments, courts, city/town halls, and “other public and private sources.” Their business model is to index large volumes (they claim over 2 billion records) and combine them with web‑available information to build searchable profiles.
They engage in automatic data harvesting:
Beyond direct public record ingestion, sources indicate that third‑party data brokers, web scraping, reverse phone/email lookups, and other background‑check tools feed into RecordsFinder’s database. This includes reverse phone, reverse IP, email lookup, address history, social account linking.
Opting out is possible, but removal is difficult:
While RecordsFinder allows you to submit opt‑out requests (often via web form, email verification) the removal may take time, may require identity confirmation, and may not cover all data footprints or guarantee future prevention of re‑indexing. Because of the volume of records and the perpetual updating of data brokers, individuals often benefit from professional monitoring / removal assistance (such as those offered by mePrism) to reduce remaining exposure and manage ongoing ingestion of personal data.
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