Is My Age and Birth Year Public Online?

5 min read Last reviewed April 2026 Free scan available

Open a Spokeo or BeenVerified profile and one of the first fields you see is your age. Sometimes month and year of birth. Sometimes a complete date of birth, behind a small paywall. For most US adults this data is sitting on dozens of broker sites, sourced primarily from voter registration, motor vehicle records, and commercial databases.

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Where Brokers Get Your Date of Birth

DOB is one of the most aggressively collected data points because it's the most reliable identity disambiguator. There are dozens of "John Smiths" in any given metro area. Only one was born on a specific day in a specific year.

Voter registration. Most US states require date of birth on voter rolls. Many states make voter file data available to commercial bidders, sometimes for almost nothing. Brokers buy these files and bake DOB into their identity profiles.

Motor vehicle records. Driver's license records contain DOB. The Driver's Privacy Protection Act restricts who can purchase DMV data, but the permitted-use categories are broad enough that data brokers, insurance companies, and marketers all routinely access bulk DMV data.

Court records. Civil lawsuits, criminal cases, and family court filings often include DOB or age. Court portals get scraped continuously.

Marriage certificates. Marriage records are public in most states and contain DOB or age of both parties.

Commercial data. Mortgage applications, credit applications, and many online forms collect DOB. The data shared with "trusted partners" lands in commercial broker databases.

Data breaches. Equifax, T-Mobile, AT&T, and a parade of healthcare breaches have exposed billions of DOB records. Some end up on the dark web. Some end up back in commercial broker databases.

Why Age Exposure Matters

DOB is one of the highest-leverage identity attributes an attacker can have. Several common attack patterns depend on it.

Identity Theft and New-Account Fraud

Opening a credit card or loan in your name needs name, address, DOB, and Social Security number. The first three are widely available on broker sites. SSNs leak from breaches. With those four fields an attacker can apply for credit in your name, and some applications go through. More on the identity theft pipeline.

Account Takeover Through Security Questions

Plenty of financial institutions still use security questions whose answers are derived from DOB: zodiac sign, age at a milestone, decade of birth. Account-recovery flows that fall back to DOB-based questions become trivially defeatable when DOB is on Whitepages.

Age-Targeted Scams

Scammers segment their victim lists by age. Romance scams, grandparent scams, retirement-account scams, and timeshare-resale scams all target specific age ranges. Broker-published DOB lets scam operators build precisely targeted call lists.

KYC Bypass

Crypto exchanges, fintechs, and online banks rely on automated identity verification. Several of these systems have been defeated by attackers who used publicly available name + address + DOB combinations to open accounts in real victims' names.

DOB is one of the few identity attributes you cannot change. You can move, you can change your phone number, you can rotate your email. You cannot rotate the day you were born. The only thing that helps is getting it off the searchable broker layer.

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How to Remove Your Age and DOB

Removing DOB follows the same opt-out workflow as other broker data with one important wrinkle. Brokers don't let you remove individual fields. You opt out of the entire profile or you opt out of nothing.

The Standard Opt-Out

Submit a removal request through each broker's privacy portal. Most require you to verify your identity by email link or phone confirmation, then process the removal within 2 to 6 weeks. After removal your DOB is no longer searchable on that broker's site, though it may still sit in their underlying database for internal use.

Why You Cannot Just Correct an Error

Most people notice broker exposure for the first time when they see an incorrect age listed and try to correct it. Brokers usually decline correction requests, partly to discourage engagement, partly because corrections would prove you've already authenticated yourself enough to opt out. Treat any inaccuracy as a prompt to opt out, not as an opening for a back-and-forth.

Re-Listing After Public-Record Updates

Every new data source that includes your DOB (new voter registration, new court filing, new marriage record) can re-introduce DOB to broker scrapes. Quarterly re-scanning catches re-listings before they propagate. Brokers re-list. We re-submit.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where do data brokers get my date of birth?
Common sources include voter registration (most states require DOB), motor vehicle records, court filings, professional licenses, marriage certificates, and commercial databases populated by mortgage and credit applications. Some brokers obtain DOBs from data breaches as well. Once your DOB enters one broker's database, it spreads to others through commercial data-sharing agreements.
Can scammers open accounts with just my date of birth?
DOB alone is not enough, but it is one of the four or five data points most account openings require. Combined with name, address, and Social Security number (often available on the dark web from breaches), DOB completes the data set needed to apply for credit cards, loans, and bank accounts in your name. Removing DOB from broker sites breaks one link in that chain.
Is publishing my age legal?
Yes. Age and date of birth are not protected under federal privacy law in the US, and the public records that contain them are explicitly public. State data broker laws (California, Vermont, Texas, Oregon, and growing) require brokers to honor opt-out requests, but they do not prohibit brokers from publishing age data in the first place.
What if my listed age or DOB is wrong?
Most brokers will not let you correct errors. They will only let you opt out entirely. That is intentional. From the broker's perspective your correction makes their product more accurate and more valuable, so they would rather you opt out than fix the data. Use the inaccuracy as motivation to opt out, not as a starting point for a back-and-forth.
Can I remove just the age field without removing the rest of my profile?
No. Brokers operate at the profile level, not the field level. You can opt out of the entire profile or leave it intact. There is no partial removal. This is one reason a comprehensive opt-out is more efficient than trying to negotiate piecemeal disclosure.
Do brokers know my exact birthday or just the year?
It varies by source. Voter registration in most states requires full DOB, so brokers that license voter data have month-day-year. Property records and court filings often show only year of birth or age at filing. People-search sites typically display age, month, and year publicly while keeping full DOB behind a paywall as a "premium" field.
Why does age matter for security questions?
Many account-recovery flows ask security questions whose answers are derived from DOB or age: zodiac sign, birth city, age at a specific event. Publicly available DOB lets attackers compute or guess these answers. The same applies to two-factor authentication setup at some institutions that use DOB as a verification fallback.

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