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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVORS

Your address is on these sites. We can start taking it down today.

Data brokers and people-search sites publish your name, address, and address history for anyone to find. Delist removes your personal information from those sites and keeps pushing removals when it comes back. That's one piece of a broader safety plan — here's what we do, what we don't, and where the rest of the work lives.

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Address removal across 100+ brokers Continuous re-listing detection CCPA/GDPR legal requests Account separable from family Encrypted, access-controlled
WHAT WE CAN ADDRESS

What brokers publish — and what we go after

Data brokers collect your address, phone number, relatives, and location history from public records and resell them. You have legal rights to demand deletion, and we file those requests. The rest of safety planning involves people and systems outside the broker layer.

Your new address keeps getting re-published

You move. Brokers pull the new address from voter rolls, utilities, and vehicle registrations. Within weeks the new location is searchable on people-search sites. The move itself is undone unless the broker layer is addressed too.

Family members can leak your location

Brokers link records by shared address and family relationship. A parent's or sibling's profile may list you as "associated" with their address — including the new one if you stay there or visit often. Family-member coverage matters when household members are aligned with the plan.

Court and property records are partially public

Restraining orders, divorce filings, and property records are filed in public court systems by design. Brokers aggregate them. Address Confidentiality Programs (ACPs) help shield these underlying filings — Delist handles the broker-layer re-publication.

Old records stay accessible

Brokers retain address-history records going back many years. Old jointly-held addresses, old workplaces, old emergency contacts — all stay searchable. Removal requests address the historical records alongside current ones.

The broker piece is the part of safety work you can start right now, on your own, before anything else is in place.

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Resources beyond data-broker removal

  • National Domestic Violence Hotline 24/7 confidential support, safety planning, local-resource referrals. thehotline.org · 1-800-799-7233 · text START to 88788.
  • NNEDV (National Network to End Domestic Violence) State coalition directory, Safety Net technology-safety toolkit, ACP guidance. nnedv.org · Tech Safety: techsafety.org.
  • Address Confidentiality Programs (ACPs) State-run programs that provide a substitute address for public records. Available in most US states. NNEDV maintains a directory at nnedv.org/content/safe-home-state-programs.
  • Safety Net Tech Safety Toolkit Step-by-step guidance for accounts, devices, social media, and family-account audits during safety planning. techsafety.org/resources-survivor.
  • WomensLaw.org State-by-state legal information on protection orders, custody, and related issues. womenslaw.org.
HOW DELIST HELPS

What we do, specifically

1

See what's out there

The free scan checks 100+ data brokers and people-search sites that publish your name, address, and address history. You see the full picture before committing to anything.

2

We file removal requests across every broker

CCPA and GDPR-backed deletion requests go out to every broker we find, covering your current address and the full address history they hold on you.

3

We keep re-removing it when it comes back

Brokers re-add addresses from voter rolls and utility records within weeks of a move. We're monitoring continuously and re-filing removals when new listings appear — you don't have to track it.

4

Your account is yours alone

Your account is single-person by default — not linked to anyone else's. Adding family members is opt-in and something to think through with your safety plan before doing.

COMPARE APPROACHES

What managed broker-removal looks like vs. doing it yourself

Manual opt-outsGeneric privacy toolsDelist.ai
Places covered10-2050-200Brokers, AI, search, dark web
Address-history removalOften missedCurrent onlyFull history
Re-listing detectionYou notice itPeriodicContinuous
Account isolationYou manageVariesSingle-person default
Legal deletion requestsDraft yourselfRarelyCCPA/GDPR
Time investmentHours per monthSetup + check-insFully managed
FAQ

Common questions

A state-run program that gives qualifying participants a state-provided substitute address to use on public records, business filings, and most government interactions. The actual address stays confidential and accessible only to the participant and ACP administrators. Coverage and eligibility vary by state but typically include survivors of domestic violence, stalking, sexual assault, and human trafficking. The National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) maintains a list of state programs.
No, and it shouldn't. Delist handles a specific piece — removing your data from commercial data brokers and people-search sites. Safety planning is broader work that involves a trained advocate, an ACP enrollment, legal protection orders if applicable, and decisions about housing, finances, and contact. Domestic-violence advocates at the National DV Hotline (1-800-799-7233) and local programs are who you want for the broader planning.
No. Court records, utility hookups, vehicle registrations, and similar government-system filings stay where they are — and brokers re-aggregate them. The broker layer (which is what we cover) is where the publicly-searchable version lives. Removing from brokers cuts that public surface. For the underlying records, an ACP and (where applicable) legal name-change or address-shielding orders are the tools.
Often yes, at least for accounts the abusive person might watch. The Safety Net program at NNEDV publishes a thorough Tech Safety Toolkit covering social media, devices, accounts, and family-member-account audits. Worth reading before you make changes — some changes (deleting a long-running account) can themselves be a signal. An advocate can help think through sequence.
Yes. Shared phone plans, family-tagged accounts, joint financial products, and shared addresses with people who may not be on the same safety plan can create unintended exposure. Family plans on services like Delist can be helpful when household members are aligned; not when they aren't. Bring this up in safety planning before adding others to any shared account.

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