ZoomInfo
A marketingsite 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 ZoomInfoWhat ZoomInfo collects
- Full name
- Work email and direct work phone
- Job title and employer
- Work address
- Sometimes personal phone numbers
- Professional history (LinkedIn-style)
How to opt out yourself
Direct opt-out: https://www.zoominfo.com/about-zoominfo/privacy-center
- Open https://www.zoominfo.com/about-zoominfo/privacy-center in a private window.
- Submit the privacy request — opt-out / right to delete.
- Provide your full name, work email, and any other identifiers ZoomInfo may have.
- Click the verification link in the email.
- Allow 14 business days for processing.
What ZoomInfo knows about you
ZoomInfo sells work-contact data to sales teams. Work email, direct office phone, title, employer — packaged for cold outreach. They source from public LinkedIn data, business filings, scraped corporate websites, and commercial data feeds.
The data is work-focused, not personal — but a determined adversary can use ZoomInfo to identify your workplace, your title, your direct phone, and (in some records) personal numbers tied to your work profile.
Why it matters if you're on the job
If your workplace is already public — department, courthouse, hospital — ZoomInfo isn't a personal-safety risk on its own. For roles where work-life and personal-life separation matters more — undercover, federal, executive protection — it can be a leak point.
The bigger risk is phishing. Attacks targeting officers' work email through a ZoomInfo-derived contact list are increasingly common.
How to opt out
Submit through ZoomInfo's privacy center. Slower than typical brokers (14 days). Re-listing is slow because B2B data refreshes less frequently than consumer broker data.
What we do that's faster
We file the ZoomInfo privacy request and re-check every two weeks.
Who owns it
Public company, NASDAQ: ZI. Founded 2000 as Zoom Information Inc.; acquired by DiscoverOrg in February 2019 and rebranded as ZoomInfo Technologies. IPO'd on NASDAQ in June 2020, raising $935M. Headquartered in Vancouver, WA. Profiles 500M+ business professionals and 100M+ companies — the largest B2B contact database in the US.
Lawsuits
- W.D. Wash. (3:21-cv-05725) / 9th Cir. (No. 22-35305) · 2024 · $29.55M class action settlement; final approval hearing November 21, 2024
California Right of Publicity claim (Cal. Civ. Code § 3344). ZoomInfo used individuals' names and photos without consent to market subscriptions. The 9th Circuit reversed dismissal in September 2023, leading to the settlement.
Where the data comes from
- Web crawling of professional profilesLinkedIn, company websites, corporate directories.
- Community Edition email pluginUsers install a free plugin that grants ZoomInfo access to extract contact data from their inboxes — the source of much of the personal-phone and direct-line data.
- Corporate data partnerships
- User-contributed corrections
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