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People and Records collects directories and lookup tools for public information about people, companies, and institutions. Government records and public records point to official registers and the portals that hold them. Legal, police, and court records covers case files, court listings, and legal databases, while business records lists company registries and filing archives. Identity and verification tools covers services that check a person or a document, and research and discovery tools collects the broader background references that tie the others together. Phone and email lookup, username search, voter and electoral records, offender registries, and property records each have a topic of their own. This is sensitive material. Some entries label individuals or groups, and listing sites of this kind can carry claims that are hard to verify, so use official records where you can and treat user-submitted pages with care.
Phone Scoop maintains a searchable database of phone specifications, organized by manufacturer and carrier. It includes phone finder and compare tools for viewing details of up to five phones side by side, along with new releases and FCC approvals. The database currently contains 2807 phones.
A British Columbia government search page for locating and downloading specific documents, such as receipts, notes, letters, memos and reports, that correspond to information releases and travel expense records. It advises using the catalogue search by keyword and information type when the document is not known.
A Boolean Strings blog post describing how Custom Search Engines can search public voter records on voterrecords.com, which holds data for sixteen US states. Records include names, addresses and potentially emails, phone numbers and gender. The site allows searching by name, city, state, party and year of birth, and X-Ray queries can target additional values.
SEDAR issuer page for XBRL voluntary filings and Canadian public-company reporting.
Ancestry yearbook collection for searching school yearbooks, names, dates, and photos.
MLive searchable salary article covering University of Michigan employee compensation records.
Quebec RACJ public alcohol registry for licences, permits, and regulated establishments.
Caspio search page for finding Cal Poly-related email records or directory information.
Canadian importer database for finding companies, products, countries, and import activity.
Creates random company names for startups, stories, and design mockups.
Gun Dealer Inspections is a database from The Trace for searching inspection reports of federally licensed gun dealers. It contains reports for nearly 2,000 licensees inspected between 2015 and 2017 that received revocations, warnings or other penalties. Users can explore a map or browse by state, outcome or violation.
Steve Morse tool for searching New York voter records and public registration information.
OSINT Combine is an OSINT resource for online investigations, research links, search methods, and public data tools.
Pennsylvania PPP loan visualization for searching pandemic loan recipients and business records.
A custom OSINT search tool for investigating national and international telephone numbers. It checks whether a phone number appears in different formats via search engines, with fields for users to fill in. Using the tools redirects to external search engines and websites.
Command-line tool for checking which known breaches may be linked to a target email address.
Indian NGO search portal for finding registered organizations, profiles, locations, and sector details.
Email search tool for finding public addresses and related information during OSINT investigations.
A map listing every church, school, camp or facility in the U.S. where an alleged abuser identified in the Star-Telegram's investigation has worked, including locations worked before or after the alleged abuse occurred. Some churches no longer exist and others have taken over their buildings.
Caspio database for searching Los Angeles restaurant health violations and inspection records.
OSINT Dojo is a curated resource directory covering general OSINT and methodology, article publishing platforms, CTFs and quizzes, video streaming platforms, and other uses of OSINT. It also lists archived or deleted content, collection tools, cryptocurrency and dark web resources, and domain, website and networking tools. A link is provided to submit a resource or broken link.
A search engine that accepts a few digits and generates a list of possible valid phone numbers, intended for OSINT needs. The page labels it an advanced valid phone number generator and provides United States state and rate center selections.
Database of public social media posts by law-enforcement officers reviewed for accountability research.
A British Columbia government search page for finding information records released by the B.C. government, including information released regularly or released by request. It recommends that entered keywords be spelled correctly for best results.
