following is a question submitted by the real user:
Q: How do I know if a service-people research online I pay for not to my information (I have to give to process a search) in their own database for others to find if someone wants to do a search on me ?
A: paging services get all their information from public sources of information, such as criminal records, marketing research databases, and Address directories. If you do a free search using a search service people that we examined, chances are you will see that you are already registered, most people are, though the depth and the amount of information may vary from one person to another, and service to service.
The only information collected during registration must be billing information, including a current address. We know that the people we looked up to ever using a background check service before, and we were able to find current and past addresses, and other information. The addresses are fairly easy to find for most people, unless you really live off the grid.
Thus, the services are fairly safe (the states of the privacy policy of Intelius how your information may be used, and if you have described is not part of their policy of use). If you are curious, do a search on yourself, and see what happens.