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 →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.
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.
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.
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.
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 →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.
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.
We confirm each removal after it processes. If a broker ignores the request, we keep escalating, and refile if a listing reappears.
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.
| Manual opt-outs | Generic privacy tools | Delist.ai | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coverage approach | Sites you identify | Varies by provider | Brokers, AI, search, breach data |
| Re-listing detection | You notice it yourself | Periodic | Monthly scans |
| Household coverage | Repeat for each person | Varies | Add members |
| 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 |
Earlier is better. Removals take days to weeks, so having protection in place before a story runs gives it time to work. If a story is already out, we start right away.
No. We target broker and people-search sites that publish your home address, phone, and family connections. Your published work, professional social media, newsroom contact pages, and press appearances stay untouched.
Some newsrooms already do, alongside physical security training and digital tools. If yours doesn't, this is a low-cost addition to a journalist safety policy. Each journalist gets their own profile and coverage.
It helps if it's consistently separated from your legal name. But if your real name appears on a voter roll, deed, or utility record at the same address, brokers can bridge the two. Pen names slow casual discovery, not determined searching.
Freelancers are usually more exposed than staff: same byline visibility, no institutional support behind it. Individual plans give you the same coverage newsroom programs provide for staff journalists.
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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