How Social Catfish Collects, Sells, and Shares Your Personal Information
What is Social Catfish?
Social Catfish is a California‑based people search and online identity investigation service that aggregates personal information from public records, social networks, and third‑party sources to build detailed individual profiles. It provides reverse email, phone number, social media, and image search services that can reveal contact details, employment history, online accounts, addresses, and other personal data. These profiles are accessible for a fee and can be used to verify identities or uncover potential fraud, but they also expose sensitive personal details to anyone willing to pay for access.
URL
socialcatfish.com
Support
ccparequest@socialcatfish.com
Type of Data Broker
People Search
Aggression level
High
What Social Catfish 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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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 Social Catfish
Social Catfish provides an online opt‑out form where you can request removal of your personal listing. Removal is available but requires locating your listing, copying the profile URL, and submitting it via the opt‑out form with your email address to receive a confirmation link. The process can take several weeks and only removes your information from SocialCatfish.com, not other people‑search or data broker sites.
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Social Catfish Privacy Risks and How to Remove Your Personal Data
They scrape and aggregate your personal data:
SocialCatfish pulls together personal data from public records (such as voter registrations, court documents, property records) and online sources like social networks and web directories to create searchable profiles. It may also license data from other data brokers and publicly accessible databases to expand its dataset.
They engage in automatic data harvesting:
The platform offers tools like reverse image search, phone lookup, and email searches that automatically scan and cross‑reference multiple open datasets, linking identifiers to consolidated personal profiles for quick access
Opting out is possible, but removal is difficult:
Removing your data from SocialCatfish is possible via an opt‑out process, but it does not eliminate your information from all brokers. Even after removal, other data aggregators may still hold and share similar details about you.
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