Data Sources
Last updated October 4, 2026
Every item in a report shows where it came from. These are the sources we use:
| Source | What it provides |
|---|---|
| Licensed public-information provider (EnformionGO) | A possible owner name, age range, city and state, linked phone numbers and email addresses, and location history (city and state only). Not shown for residents of US states where we do not display compiled data. |
| Carrier lookup (Twilio) | Line type, carrier and country of a phone number. |
| Public web pages (Google Programmable Search) | Pages that mention the phone number, email address or name. |
| Public profile pages | Public profiles that use the same username as an email address, checked without logging in and respecting each site's robots.txt. |
| Gravatar | Public Gravatar profiles linked to an email address. |
| Domain registries (RDAP) and DNS | When an email domain was registered and whether it accepts email. |
| Disposable-domain list | Whether an email address uses a throwaway domain (open-source list, CC0). |
| FaceCheck | For Photo check: public web pages where an uploaded photo, or similar-looking photos, appear, with a similarity score. The photo is deleted right after the check. |
| Photo file details (EXIF) | Camera, date taken and editing software from an uploaded photo. Location data is never read. |
| Have I Been Pwned | For Breach Check and self-checks: the names and dates of known data breaches an email address appeared in, and the types of data exposed. We never receive or show passwords or leaked records, and we never show sensitive breaches. Breach data: Have I Been Pwned, licensed under CC BY 4.0. |