IDStrong
A people searchsite that exposes your name, address, phone, and relatives. Here's what they collect, how to opt out, and why it matters if you're on the job.
Visit IDStrongWhat IDStrong collects
- Full name and aliases
- Current and prior addresses
- Phone numbers
- Email addresses
- Age and date of birth
- Relatives and known associates
- Social media profile links
- Criminal and court records (paid report)
- Property and asset records (paid report)
How to opt out yourself
Direct opt-out: https://www.idstrong.com/optout
- Go to https://www.idstrong.com/optout in a private window.
- Search your name and state to find your listing.
- Open the record that's actually you and copy the profile URL.
- Submit the opt-out form with that URL and your email address.
- Check your inbox for a confirmation email and click to confirm.
- Allow up to 72 hours for the listing to clear the public search.
What IDStrong knows about you
IDStrong runs a free "instant" search and a paid report behind it. The free search shows your name, age, current city, and a teaser list of relatives. Pay for the full report and you get every address you've had, phone numbers, email addresses, and a criminal record summary pulled from court filings.
IDStrong also markets a breach-monitoring angle. That means it can surface passwords or account details tied to your email if they showed up in a past data breach. It's not just an address lookup — it's a wider file on you built from public records and leaked data alike.
Why it matters if you're on the job
A listing here is rarely the whole problem. IDStrong's data pool overlaps with a dozen other people-search sites, so if you're on this one, you're probably on five more nobody's checked yet. Someone building a file on you doesn't need to be clever — they run your name once and get a starting point for everything else.
The relatives section is the real risk. It links your name to your spouse, your parents, and anyone who's shared an address with you. That's how a threat against you turns into a threat at your kid's front door.
How to opt out
IDStrong's opt-out is a self-service form, not a phone call. Find your listing, grab the URL, submit the form, confirm the email. Straightforward on paper.
In practice, people-search opt-out forms like this one change their fields and confirmation steps often, and support inboxes go quiet for days. Don't assume one submission is permanent — treat it as the start of a process you'll need to check on.
Steps are in the optOutSteps field above.
How long until you're back
Expect roughly four months before a fresh public-record pull repopulates your listing. Move, get a new phone number, or show up in a new court filing, and the clock resets sooner.
Because IDStrong buys from the same aggregator pool as other broker sites, a re-list here often means a re-list somewhere else the same week.
What we do that's faster
We submit the opt-out, confirm the email, and re-check IDStrong on a set schedule so a fresh record doesn't sit exposed for months before anyone notices. We run the same process across 200+ broker sites at once, including the ones that share IDStrong's data pool, so one leak doesn't turn into ten. Officers on the Frontline Privacy plan for individuals don't have to track any of this by hand.
Who owns it
Operates as an identity-monitoring and background-report brand. Corporate ownership structure is not clearly published; treat as unconfirmed until verified.
Where the data comes from
- Public records aggregatorsCourt filings, property records, and voter registration data purchased in bulk.
- Data broker resale networksShares source pools with other people-search sites, which is why a listing here often means you're listed elsewhere too.
- Breach and leak databasesIDStrong markets itself partly as a breach-monitoring tool, which means it also indexes credentials and personal data exposed in past breaches.
Doing this for one broker is straightforward. Doing it for 200, on a continuous basis, is what we do.
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