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Intelius

A background checksite 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.

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What Intelius collects

  • Full name and aliases
  • Current and prior addresses going back 30+ years
  • Phone numbers
  • Approximate age and date of birth
  • Relatives, household members, and neighbors
  • Court records and criminal history
  • Property and bankruptcy records
  • Email addresses and social media accounts

How to opt out yourself

Direct opt-out: https://www.intelius.com/opt-out

  1. Open https://www.intelius.com/opt-out in a private window.
  2. Search your full name on the main Intelius site to confirm a listing exists. Note the URL of the matching record.
  3. On the opt-out page, search by first name, last name, and city/state.
  4. Identify your record from the results.
  5. Provide an email address to receive the confirmation.
  6. Click the verification link Intelius emails you within 24 hours.
  7. Allow up to 7 business days for the listing to drop. Intelius is slower than most.

What Intelius knows about you

Intelius is the kind of background-check site that markets to landlords and HR departments but sells to anyone who pays. The free preview is sparse — name, age range, hint of an address. The paid report is dense: every prior address going back 30 years, court records pulled from county aggregators, bankruptcy filings, property deeds, criminal history, traffic violations, neighbor names, vehicle registrations.

They source from public records, court aggregators, and commercial data brokers. The aggregation is the product — they sell the consolidated picture, not the individual data points.

Why it matters if you're on the job

The Intelius report is the dossier version of you. It connects everything: home address, criminal-record entries, spouse, parents, vehicle, neighbors. That includes dropped charges and expungements that shouldn't show. For a sworn officer, that's everything an adversary needs in one PDF for $30.

The court-records aggregation is the part that bites. Old citations from a different county, dropped charges, sealed juvenile entries — county aggregators don't always honor sealing orders, and Intelius pulls from those aggregators. We've seen records resurface that had been formally expunged years prior.

The neighbor listing creates a different problem. It hands a name and address to anyone who wants to ask your neighbor a few questions, and the neighbor never knows the search happened.

How to opt out

Intelius is part of the PeopleConnect family, which means one request through the central PeopleConnect opt-out can clear five sites at once: Intelius, US Search, Classmates, TruthFinder, and Instant Checkmate. Use https://www.peopleconnect.us/help/optout to file once instead of five times.

If you want to file Intelius-specific, the standalone form works the same way: search, claim, verify by email, wait. Intelius is slower than most — give it a week before re-checking.

Steps are in the optOutSteps field above.

How long until you're back

Six months is typical. Intelius refreshes from court-record aggregators and commercial broker feeds. New court entries — even dismissed ones — can re-list you faster than that.

If you move, the new address usually surfaces inside 60-90 days from a property record or change-of-address commercial feed.

What we do that's faster

We file through PeopleConnect's central opt-out so all five sister sites clear in one request, then re-check Intelius and the others every two weeks. When you re-list, we file again before you'd notice. Same drill across 200+ broker sites in parallel. Where the PeopleConnect central opt-out leaves off, a single removal cycle that hits Intelius and its sister sites keeps the re-checks going.

Who owns it

PeopleConnect Holdings, Inc.acquired 2015

H.I.G. Capital portfolio company. H.I.G. acquired Intelius (and its parent Inome Inc.) for >$100M in July 2015 and simultaneously acquired Classmates.com for $30M, forming the nucleus of PeopleConnect. Merged with PubRec LLC in 2020. Naveen Jain (also Infospace co-founder) founded Intelius in 2003 and exited at the H.I.G. acquisition.

Lawsuits

  • Atlas Data Privacy Corp. v. PeopleConnect, Inc. et al. (federal — terminated)
    D.N.J. (1:24-cv-04227, Hon. Harvey Bartle III) · 2024 · removed by defendants March 26, 2024; terminated November 21, 2024

    PeopleConnect removed the state action to federal court in March 2024; the case was terminated in November 2024 (most likely remanded). Intelius LLC was named as a co-defendant in the federal complaint along with PeopleConnect Inc., PeopleConnect Intermediate LLC, and PeopleConnect Holdings Inc. The state action MON-L-000484-24 (Monmouth County) is now the operative forum.

  • Multiple subscription auto-renewal class actions (pre-2015)
    Various · 2010 · settled

    Pre-acquisition class actions over deceptive post-transaction marketing — users who bought a single report were enrolled in recurring subscriptions without clear consent. The Washington State AG action below was the highest-profile example.

FTC actions

  • Washington State AG settlement$1.3M
    2010

    Deceptive post-transaction marketing — negative-option subscription enrollment after report purchases. Intelius revised its subscription terms and added clear cancellation disclosures as part of the settlement.

Where the data comes from

  • Public records
  • Marketing dataCommercial data co-ops shared across the consumer-data industry.
  • ZabaSearch datasetAcquired with the ZabaSearch buyout in December 2008.
  • Classmates.com historical dataFolded in via the 2015 H.I.G. acquisition.

Named in incidents

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