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SpyFly

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A subscription background-check service run by Digital Safety Products, LLC of San Diego, selling continuous monitoring and "unlimited" reports built from public-records data - names, ages, addresses, aliases, and criminal-records claims. One California data-broker registration covers SpyFly and its corporate sister Public Record Reports, and the opt-out runs the white-labeled Help Center privacy-requests platform shared with five more profiled brokers - a Turnstile-gated form followed by an emailed one-time code. The operator drew a $10,000 Oregon penalty in January 2026 for brokering without registering, and has faced an FCRA suit, an Illinois right-of-publicity class action, and a Daniel's Law case from the 2024 Atlas wave.

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SpyFly overview

At a glance

Quick facts
Privacy Risk
LimitedModerateSubstantialExtensive
Data published
Substantial
Re-listing frequency
Recurring
Complaint record
Mixed
Opt-out friction
High
Operator opacity
Mostly disclosed
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

Background checks · continuous monitoring

Operating entity

Digital Safety Products, LLC

Address

1804 Garnet Ave, Suite 409 San Diego, CA 92109

Support hours

7 days a week · 5am-7pm PT weekdays

CA registration

Digital Safety Products, LLC · spyfly.com + publicrecordreports.com

Corporate sister

publicrecordreports.com · same filing, same principals

Opt-out

On-site form, with an emailed code and a final emailed link

Litigation

FCRA suit (W.D. Va.) · Daniel's Law defendant (D.N.J.)

Side product

idprotect.spyfly.com identity monitoring

FCRA covered?

No, per its own disclaimer - but see Litigation

Background

Background

Company facts

SpyFly sells the subscription version of people search - not a single report but a members' area with "unlimited" searches and continuous monitoring, plus an identity-protection add-on at idprotect.spyfly.com. The privacy policy opens by naming the operator: SpyFly "is a website owned and operated by Digital Safety Products, LLC."

Operating entity

Digital Safety Products, LLC

Mailing address

SpyFly Member Support 1804 Garnet Ave, Suite 409 San Diego, CA 92109

Phones

(800) 831-9235 · (800) 301-5816 · (800) 349-9058

Hours

Mon-Fri 5am-7pm PT · Sat-Sun 7am-4pm PT

The terms of use are written for a membership product - arbitration with a 20-day mail-in opt-out window, electronic-communications consent, and a refund policy addressed to "SpyFly Member Support" at the Garnet Avenue suite. The company is reachable in ways many brokers in this directory are not - three toll-free lines staffed seven days a week - which is worth remembering if the on-site opt-out stalls.

SpyFly is the older half of a two-brand operation. Digital Safety Products' California data-broker registration covers both spyfly.com and publicrecordreports.com, the two brands' BBB profiles share an address and principals, and the registration routes Public Record Reports' privacy requests to a spyfly.com inbox. The site itself names no officer or founder - the named humans appear in the BBB filings and court dockets, not on spyfly.com.

The opt-out is a shared platform, not SpyFly's own build. SpyFly's privacy-requests form is the same white-labeled Help Center system that runs the opt-outs of QuickPublicRecords, Kids Live Safe, PublicInfoServices, PublicDataCheck, PublicRecordReports, and SearchPublicRecords - same screens, same emailed-code choreography.

Data Published

Data types

7 categories

SpyFly's reports are built from public-records aggregation. Its search results expose names, ages, aliases, and address histories before any payment, with the full report behind the subscription.

Sensitive: elevated identity-theft, doxxing, or safety riskStandard public-record field

  • Full names and aliases
  • Age
  • Current and past addressesSensitive
  • Phone numbers
  • Relatives shown in reportsSensitive
  • Criminal-records claimsSensitive
  • Court and public-records dataSensitive

Not usable for screening decisions. SpyFly's FCRA page carries the sector-standard disclaimer - it is not a consumer reporting agency and its data may not be used for employment, credit, insurance, or tenant screening. The Litigation section below shows that disclaimer being tested in court.

Contact

Contacts & links

Well staffed, for the sector
Operating entity

Digital Safety Products, LLC

Mailing address

SpyFly Member Support 1804 Garnet Ave, Suite 409 San Diego, CA 92109

Phones

(800) 831-9235 · (800) 301-5816 · (800) 349-9058

Hours

Mon-Fri 5am-7pm PT · Sat-Sun 7am-4pm PT

CPPA-registered privacy channel

privacyinfo@spyfly.com

Contact form

spyfly.com/help-center/contact

On-site form

spyfly.com/help-center/privacy-requests

Website

https://www.spyfly.com/

Network

Sister brands

Shared opt-out platform

SpyFly's documented corporate family is a pair - one California registration by Digital Safety Products, LLC covers spyfly.com and Public Record Reports, whose CPPA-registered privacy inbox is literally a spyfly.com address. Beyond the pair, the network that matters for removal is infrastructural: five more profiled brokers run the identical Help Center privacy-requests platform under their own operators, and what a walk establishes on one has so far matched the others screen for screen.

A shared platform is not shared suppression. Each Help Center site takes its own request against its own records - and even for the corporate pair, nothing published confirms an opt-out on one site suppresses you on the other. Run SpyFly's and Public Record Reports' forms separately.

Owned or operated by Digital Safety Products, LLC10 entities in this network · San Diego, CAExplore the full map
publicrecordreports.comquickpublicrecords.comkidslivesafe.compublicinfoservices.compublicdatacheck.comsearchpublicrecords.com

Reputation

Trust signals

Unusually reviewed

SpyFly is one of the few brokers in this directory with a large review corpus - its SmartCustomer listing carries thousands of reviews at a high average, which mostly reflects the subscription product's customers rather than the people listed in its reports. Trustpilot blocked our check behind a bot challenge.

SmartCustomer (formerly Sitejabber)spyfly.com · 7,883 reviews4.5 / 5As of 2026-08View reviews ↗
TrustpilotCheck blocked by a bot challenge · listing status unknownUnreadableAs of 2026-08Check Trustpilot ↗

Read the rating for what it measures. A 4.5-star average from subscribers says the product satisfies the people running searches. The grievances of the people being searched show up in court dockets instead - see below.

Litigation

Litigation history

Oregon order · FCRA · Daniel's Law

Oregon fined Digital Safety Products, LLC in January 2026 for acting as a data broker without registering. The company has also been sued over both sides of its business, what its reports are used for (FCRA) and what its listings publish (Daniel's Law).

Oregon Division of Financial Regulation v. Digital Safety Products LLC

Final order Jan 12, 2026

Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services · Final Order Assessing Civil Penalty

Allegation

Acting as a data broker in Oregon without registering or holding an exemption

Penalty

$10,000 civil penalty

Status

Final

On January 12, 2026 Oregon's Division of Financial Regulation issued a final order assessing a $10,000 civil penalty against Digital Safety Products, over allegations that it acted as a data broker in the state without registering there or holding an exemption.

Foster v. Digital Safety Products, LLC

Active in S.D. Cal.

W.D. Va. 4:24-cv-00051 · Filed Dec 18, 2024 · closed May 23, 2025 · refiled S.D. Cal. 3:25-cv-01782, July 11, 2025

Statute

Fair Credit Reporting Act

Second filing

S.D. Cal. 3:25-cv-01782 · identical caption and cause, so an apparent transfer or refiling

An individual FCRA suit against the operator - notable because SpyFly's own help-center page disclaims being a consumer reporting agency in exactly the terms the FCRA cares about. The Virginia case closed on May 23, 2025 after the company moved to dismiss; the identical caption reappeared in the Southern District of California seven weeks later, which reads as a refiling in the right district rather than a defeat on the merits. The California case is open.

Atlas Data Privacy Corp. v. Digital Safety Products, LLC

Filed Mar 2024

D.N.J. 1:24-cv-04141 · New Jersey Daniel's Law · Filed March 25, 2024

Statute

New Jersey Daniel's Law

Context

One of ~150 Atlas suits filed against people-search operators in March 2024

Part of the March 2024 Daniel's Law wave, in which Atlas Data Privacy Corp. - as assignee of roughly 19,000-20,000 covered New Jersey judges, police officers, and prosecutors - sued people-search operators that kept publishing protected home addresses and phone numbers after removal notices. The consolidated constitutional appeal is captioned Atlas v. We Inform and its outcome will bind this case too.

Gaul v. Digital Safety Products, LLC

Closed Mar 24, 2022

C.D. Ill. 1:21-cv-01315 · Putative class action · Filed Nov 1, 2021 · closed Mar 24, 2022

Claims

Docket text matches "Right of Publicity," "765 ILCS," and "spyfly" per CourtListener search

Plaintiff's counsel

Edelson PC · Bursor & Fisher

Status

Closed March 24, 2022 - the manner of disposition sits behind docket authentication

A putative class action consistent with the Lukis-style wave that alleged people-search sites used Illinoisans' identities in free search previews to sell subscriptions - aimed squarely at the SpyFly brand. The nine-page complaint itself wasn't readable, so the exact claims and outcome are unconfirmed.

Beyond the Oregon order above, we have not found an FTC enforcement action or state Attorney General action against Digital Safety Products, LLC or SpyFly as of the last-updated date below, and no breach or leak involving this operator turned up in the security press we reviewed. Case statuses above reflect docket filings we could read, not final outcomes.

FAQ

Q & A

Common questions
Is SpyFly a data broker?

Yes, functionally. SpyFly sells subscription background reports assembled from public-records data - names, ages, aliases, addresses, relatives, and criminal-records claims - about people who never signed up for it. Its operator, Digital Safety Products, LLC, is named in its own privacy policy.

Who owns SpyFly?

Digital Safety Products, LLC, based at 1804 Garnet Ave, Suite 409 in San Diego. The privacy policy names the company outright, and the terms of use route member correspondence to the same address. No officer or founder is named on the site - the human layer appears only in court filings against the LLC.

How do I remove my information from SpyFly?

Use the form at spyfly.com/help-center/privacy-requests. Fill in your name, city, state, ZIP and age with the request type on Do Not Sell My Info, enter an email address, type back the one-time code SpyFly sends, press Remove on your record, then click the link in the final email within 60 minutes. Our SpyFly removal guide shows each screen.

Why did the SpyFly opt-out form give me an error?

The form has had a bad spell. On August 11, 2026 it passed its Cloudflare check and then answered "There was an error submitting the form" three times running, with three different identities, and Redact's automated testing saw the same that week. It worked when we walked it again on October 5, 2026. If you get the error, try again later, or use the phone lines, which are staffed seven days a week, or privacyinfo@spyfly.com, the privacy contact on the operator's California registration.

Is SpyFly the same company as Public Record Reports?

Yes. One California data-broker registration by Digital Safety Products, LLC covers both spyfly.com and publicrecordreports.com, the two brands' BBB profiles share an address and principals, and the registered privacy contact for Public Record Reports is a spyfly.com inbox. SpyFly is the older brand. Treat their databases separately though - nothing published confirms that an opt-out on one site suppresses you on the other.

Is SpyFly covered by FCRA?

SpyFly says no - its help-center FCRA page carries the standard disclaimer that it is not a consumer reporting agency and its data can't be used for employment, credit, insurance, or tenant screening. An individual FCRA suit against its operator (Foster v. Digital Safety Products, now in the Southern District of California) invokes exactly that statute, so the disclaimer's protective power is being tested in court.

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Last updated:

October 5, 2026 · Opt-out walked on October 5, 2026 from the privacy-requests form through to its Request Submitted screen. The same form rejected three submissions with three different identities on August 11, 2026, so it has been unreliable. Phone lines, hours and the California filing were read on October 5. The rest of the profile was drafted in August from SpyFly's own site and policies and federal court dockets.