Zabasearch.com is a website that searches for and collates disparate information regarding United States residents, including names, current and past addresses, phone numbers, and birth years, and then permits the user to query other search engines with this information to retrieve additional data, such as satellite photos of addresses and criminal background checks.
Premium services, accessible by registering an email address and password at the site, or by signing in via Facebook, allow users to run a free Zabasearch background check or to search by phone number.
[6] As SFGate's David Lazarus further discussed in 2005, regarding the site's free and paid services:[7] The company asserts that all of the information accessible on the site was already extant on the Internet on many government or corporate databases, the likes of which could (usually) already be accessed piecemeal by the general public.
As such, they assert that the site fosters nothing new except the convenience of gathering the data automatically and is not suited for use by potential identity thieves.
[11] Zabasearch previously claimed to only share names and email addresses of users and information already published elsewhere, and not the text of personal messages.