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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://suppression.peopleconnect.us

  1. Go to the PeopleConnect suppression center at https://suppression.peopleconnect.us.
  2. Enter an email address you can check right away and agree to the terms. The verification link expires fast.
  3. Click the verification link PeopleConnect emails you.
  4. Enter your date of birth and full legal name.
  5. Find your record in the results and select it.
  6. Complete identity verification by email or phone if prompted.
  7. Set the record to suppressed and save.
  8. Re-check your name after a few days to confirm the listing dropped. Confirm the current URL and flow before relying on it, since PeopleConnect has changed this page before.

What Intelius knows about you

Intelius is a background-check site. It markets to landlords and employers, but it sells to anyone who pays. The free preview shows little: a name, an age range, a hint of an address. The paid report is dense. It pulls prior addresses going back decades, court records from county aggregators, bankruptcy filings, property deeds, criminal history, traffic citations, neighbor names, and vehicle registrations.

Intelius sources from public records, court aggregators, and commercial data brokers. The aggregation is the product. It sells the assembled picture, not the individual records.

Why it matters if you're on the job

The Intelius report ties everything to one person: home address, court entries, spouse, parents, vehicle, and neighbors. It can include dropped charges and expunged records that should not appear at all. For a working officer, that is one document an adversary can buy.

The court-records aggregation is the biggest problem. Old citations from another county, dropped charges, and sealed juvenile entries can surface, because county aggregators do not always honor sealing orders and Intelius pulls from those aggregators. Records that were formally expunged have reappeared this way.

The neighbor listing adds a second problem. It hands your name and address to anyone willing to knock on a neighbor's door and ask a few questions, and your neighbor never knows the search happened. A home address also points to everyone who lives there, not just you.

How to opt out

Intelius is a PeopleConnect brand. One request through PeopleConnect's suppression center can cover several of its people-search sites in a single filing: Intelius, US Search, TruthFinder, and Instant Checkmate. Classmates is a PeopleConnect brand too, but it is excluded from that tool and needs a separate removal on Classmates.com. Filing once for the covered sites still beats doing each by hand.

The current opt-out routes through the PeopleConnect suppression center at https://suppression.peopleconnect.us. You verify by email, so use an address you can check right away, because the verification link expires fast. Confirm the current opt-out URL and flow before you rely on it, since PeopleConnect has changed this page before.

Full steps are in the optOutSteps field above.

How long until you're back

Reappearance in about six months is common. Intelius refreshes from court-record aggregators and commercial broker feeds, so a new court entry, even a dismissed one, can re-list you sooner. If you move, the new address often surfaces within a few months from a property record or a change-of-address feed.

What we do

We file through PeopleConnect's suppression center so the sister sites clear in one request. Then we keep checking, and we refile when you reappear. We run the same process across the other broker sites we monitor. We handle most of the work and tell you clearly when a site needs something only you can provide.

Run a free scan to see where Intelius and the other PeopleConnect sites list you. We cover Intelius and the other major broker sites in one removal process.

Who owns it

PeopleConnect Holdings, Inc.acquired 2015

H.I.G. Capital portfolio company. H.I.G. acquired Intelius and its parent Inome in 2015 and combined it with Classmates to form PeopleConnect. PubRec, the parent of TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate, merged in January 2020. Naveen Jain, a co-founder of Infospace, founded Intelius in 2003.

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: users were enrolled in negative-option recurring subscriptions after buying a report. 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

  • 20,000 New Jersey officers sue 118 data brokers under Daniel's Law (2024)
    2024-02-13

    Intelius is covered under PeopleConnect's Atlas docket (state: MON-L-000484-24, Monmouth County). PeopleConnect briefly removed to federal court (D.N.J. 1:24-cv-04227) in March 2024; that federal case was terminated November 2024 and the state action is now the operative forum. Intelius LLC was named as a co-defendant in the federal complaint.

Doing this for one broker is straightforward. Doing it for 200, on a continuous basis, is what we do.

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