When it comes to intelligences, Intelius is vigilant in upholding its standards in information accuracy. The Naveen Jain-led company has even leveraged a mesh of court researchers to determine the veracity of its intelligences.
It provides intelligences online in the form of criminal reports, people search reports, property search reports, marriage record reports, death record reports, etc.
Not one of these reports contains private information, nor do they have data about corporations and companies. These are all publicly available personal intelligences, nothing more than personal profiles, but valuable commodities all the same.
Employers and parents use them to verify information on other people, and therefore make informed decisions regarding them. The hiring process, for instance, becomes more expedient with Intelius’ employee screening tools, which checks job hunters’ applications. With Intelius’ date checks for another, people would know info their dates would rather keep as secrets, like a marriage or a sex crime.
How Intelius does all these is fairly simple; it has access to more than 250 million public records on persons in all 50 US states. Americans hold themselves to public scrutiny by filing these with the country’s public agencies, e.g. AOCs, DOCs, courthouses, tax bureaus, address registries, census offices, government agencies, and such.
Obviously, Intellius can sell someone’s personal but publicly available info like telephone numbers, death certifications, and professional licenses through them.
Unless the company breaks in a house to get them, there is nothing unlawful about trading such information. Besides, one could easily call a local telephone directory to obtain a listed number. Anybody could lawfully retrieve them on their own — if they could.
Sadly, America has a very complex bureaucracy and too big a geography for people to do that on a whim. Fortunately, Intellius bridges the gulf between public records and the public.