Broker profile
Information.com
- Redact finds listings · manual opt-out
A people-search site publishing listings on crawlable pages by name, state, and city, with ages, addresses, phones, emails, and relatives reachable by anyone who searches. California's data broker registry lists its operator as Information.com, LLC of Tampa, Florida. Its opt-out form is the Suppression Center that CheckPeople and UnMask also use, and it sits in a cluster with them and PublicRecord.com, separately registered operations sharing one compliance pattern. The form ties a suppression to the first email address that verifies it, and says a birthdate can't be changed once it's saved.
Information.com overview
At a glance
- Data published
- Substantial
- Re-listing frequency
- Recurring
- Complaint record
- No public record
- Opt-out friction
- High
- Operator opacity
- Obscured
- Prior data incidents
- None documented
Each broker is scored 1 to 4 across the six dimensions above; higher means more exposure, and the overall gauge is their average.
What each dimension means
- Data published: how much and how sensitive the personal data they put out.
- Re-listing frequency: how quickly you reappear after opting out.
- Complaint record: the volume and pattern of complaints across BBB, Trustpilot, and Sitejabber. No listing, or a listing with no reviews, counts against the broker.
- Opt-out friction: how hard the removal process is to complete.
- Operator opacity: how hidden the operating company and its principals are.
- Prior data incidents: history of breaches or leaks of the data they hold.
- Category
People search · SEO listing pages
- Related operations
CheckPeople · UnMask · PublicRecord.com cluster
- Opt-out
- The catch
First verifying email claims your records permanently
- FCRA covered?
No
Background
Background
Information.com publishes its listings as crawlable pages - /people/your-name/your-state/your-city - so your record isn't just searchable on the site, it's indexed by search engines under your name. The removal mechanism is where this site earns its warning.
- Listing structure
SEO pages by name → state → city
- Opt-out shape
Verify an email → set a birthdate → give a legal name → pick from matching records
- Binding
Permanent · records can't be re-claimed by another address
The opt-out flow claims matched records to the first email address that verifies them - permanently. Whoever controls that inbox controls the suppression, forever: manage it, re-assert it, or release it. That's exactly why Redact's own product scans this site but refuses to automate its opt-out - automating it would make a temporary machine-generated address the permanent owner of your suppression record, locking you out of ever managing it with an email you actually control. The same reasoning applies to any removal service you might hire: if their address claims your records, the suppression is theirs, not yours.
Do this one yourself, with an email account you will keep for life.
Never run this opt-out with a throwaway address. A disposable or forwarding email that claims your records becomes their permanent owner - and when that inbox dies, so does your ability to manage the suppression. Use your own long-term address, treat it as part of the removal, and keep it.
Data Published
Data types
Listings surface the standard people-search bundle, on pages search engines index by name.
Sensitive: elevated identity-theft, doxxing, or safety riskStandard public-record field
- Full names
- Age
- Current and past addressesSensitive
- Phone numbers
- Email addresses shown in listings
- Relatives shown in listingsSensitive
Contact
Contacts & links
- Opt-out
- Registered operator
Information.com, LLC, Tampa, Florida
- Privacy contact
compliance@information.com · (561) 462-0092, as given on its California data broker registration
- Website
Network
Sister brands
Information.com belongs to a cluster of separately registered people-search operations sharing one compliance pattern, each with a compliance@ contact. Three of them run the same on-site Suppression Center, and PublicRecord.com takes requests through its contact page.
A cluster is not shared suppression. Each of these sites runs its own opt-out against its own records - removing yourself from one does nothing on the others.
FAQ
Q & A
Is Information.com a data broker?
Yes. It publishes people-search listings - names, ages, addresses, phones, emails, and relatives - on crawlable pages organized by name, state, and city, about people who never signed up for it.
How do I remove my information from Information.com?
Through the Suppression Center at information.com/opt-out. It's an opt-out of sale and sharing that hides your listing, not a deletion. Do it yourself, with an email address you'll keep permanently, because the form ties a suppression to the first email that verifies it and says a birthdate can't be changed once saved. It then lists the records matching your legal name and birthdate for you to select. If it lists nothing for a page you can see on the site, write to compliance@information.com, the privacy contact on the operator's California registration. Our removal guide shows each screen.
Why won't removal services handle Information.com properly?
Because of the claiming gate. Any service that verifies your opt-out with its own address permanently binds your records to that address - Redact's product deliberately scans this site but leaves the removal to you for exactly that reason. A suppression you can't manage with your own email isn't really yours.
Is Information.com covered by FCRA?
No - it's a people-search site of the standard non-CRA kind, and its listings can't lawfully drive employment, credit, insurance, or tenant-screening decisions. The exposure of an indexed listing is unchanged by the disclaimer.
Take yourself off data broker sites
Redact scans data broker sites from your device, finds where your details are listed, and submits the removal requests for you. If a broker relists you, it files again.
October 5, 2026 · The opt-out material here follows a walk on August 12, 2026, which ended on an empty Matching Records screen because the form found no record for our walker. That's the form working, not failing. The first Suppression Center screen and California's data broker registry were read on October 5. The listing structure and the email-claiming behavior come from Information.com's own site and Redact's testing in August, which is why Redact's product scans this site and doesn't automate its removal.