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 find every site publishing them and start taking it down — then keep watching 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 — spouse, adult children, sometimes parents — with 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 — and 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 and what they're publishing — including the byline-to-address connections that matter most.
Remove it
We're submitting opt-out requests across every site where you appear. Automated forms, CCPA and GDPR deletion requests, and escalated follow-ups for brokers that don't respond the first time.
Verify each removal
We confirm each removal after it processes. When a broker ignores a request, we keep escalating. We file on what we find — and re-file when it comes back.
Keep watching
Broker databases pull from public records continuously. A confirmed removal can reappear within weeks. We detect re-listings automatically and submit again — you don't have to do anything.
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, dark web |
| Re-listing detection | You notice it yourself | Periodic | Continuous |
| 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/GDPR |
| Ongoing maintenance | Hours per month, forever | Periodic check-ins | Fully managed |
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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