Your byline is public. Your home address doesn't have to be.
Your home address, phone number, and family connections are exposed across people-search sites. We search for where they're published, start taking it down, and keep checking so it stays down.
Start removing your information →Your byline is the starting point. Your address is the destination.
Data broker sites connect your public name to your home address, phone number, and household members. Your published work is how people find you. Those sites are how someone uses that to find where you live.
Bylines connect to personal records
Your name appears on every story. Name plus city is all a broker needs to surface your home address, phone, and household members. The more you publish, the more discoverable the connection.
People-search sites make your address easy to find
Anyone who wants to find where you live can do it in a few searches. Investigative subjects, readers who take a story personally, and coordinated harassment campaigns all start the same way. Removing your address from those sites takes away the easiest path.
Your household shares your exposure
Brokers list "associated people" on your profile, including spouses, adult children, and sometimes parents, tied to your shared address. Removing the household's listings protects the people who share your home, not just you.
Threat levels shift with story cycles
A routine story today can go viral tomorrow. The removals that help most are the ones already in place before you need them, so the calm window is the time to start.
Background reading:Data brokers and stalking risk
See which sites are publishing your home address, phone number, and family connections, then start taking them down.
Start removing your information →How Delist removes and keeps your information off
Find your exposure
We scan data brokers, people-search sites, AI services, and public records for your name, phone, email, and address. You see exactly which sites have your information, including the byline-to-address connections that matter most.
Remove it
We submit opt-out requests to every site we find you listed on: automated forms, CCPA and state-law deletion requests, and escalated follow-ups when a broker doesn't respond.
Verify each removal
We confirm each removal after it processes. If a broker ignores the request, we keep escalating, and refile if a listing reappears.
Keep watching
Broker databases refresh from public records on their own schedule, so a confirmed removal can resurface. We run a full scan every month for re-listings and refile automatically, and we'll reach out if a site ever needs something from you directly.
Delist vs. doing it yourself
| Manual opt-outs | Generic privacy tools | Delist.ai | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Places covered | 10-20 (if you find the time) | 50-200 | Brokers, AI, search, breach data |
| Re-listing detection | You notice it yourself | Periodic | Monthly scans |
| Household coverage | Repeat for each person | Varies | Family plans |
| Time to initial removals | Days of manual work | Hours to days | Hours |
| Legal deletion requests | Draft and send yourself | Rarely | CCPA + state law |
| Ongoing maintenance | Hours per month, forever | Periodic check-ins | Mostly automatic |
Common questions from journalists
See what's out there, and start taking it down.
A free scan shows which sites are publishing your home address, phone number, and family members. You'll see the results right away.
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