Understand where your personal information appears.
A focused set of guides on people-search sites, data brokers, public records, and the privacy work that can reduce public exposure.
What Happens After a Data Broker Removal Request?
Follow a data broker removal request from submission to confirmation and a public recheck. Learn what each status proves and when to follow up.
Read the guideMy Privacy Agent privacy library
A deliberately small collection of useful guides: what to check, what to remove, what proof to keep, and where the limits are.
Google Results About You: How to Find and Remove Your Info (2026)
Use Google Results About You to find and request removal of your phone, address, email, and government ID from Search—then remove the source page too.
Remove Your Phone Number From the Internet Before It Becomes a Scam Magnet
A practical checklist for finding exposed phone-number records, removing broker listings, locking carrier settings, and reducing SMS scam risk.
Why Data Broker Profiles Come Back After an Opt-Out
A people-search profile can return after an opt-out. Learn to separate relisting, a new page, and stale search results, then keep evidence of each recheck.
The Data Broker Opt-Out Proof Log: What to Track After You File
A practical proof log for data broker opt-outs: what to save, when to recheck, and how to spot relisted profiles.
Data Broker Identity Verification: What to Share and What to Refuse
A practical guide to data broker identity verification: when to provide matching details, what to avoid, and how to keep proof safe.
Data Broker Opt-Out Appeal Email: What to Say When Removal Fails
A practical appeal email template for stalled or denied data broker opt-outs, plus the proof to include before escalating.
Inside the Data Broker Industry: How Your Name Becomes a Product
How data brokers turn public records, commercial data, and identity matching into searchable profiles—and what an opt-out can and cannot change.
Why I Built This: I Searched My Own Name and Found My Family
I searched my own name and found a public profile connecting my household to addresses, phones, and old email accounts. Here is what I decided to build—and what it cannot promise.
Your Address Can Appear on a Relative's Profile
Your own people-search profile can disappear while a relative's page still shows your address. Learn how to review household exposure with permission.
Turn exposure findings into an owned privacy workflow.
My Privacy Agent helps organize privacy requests and follow-up without changing what a completed removal must prove.
Find the official opt-out path for a data broker.
Browse practical removal instructions with stored verification dates and honest support boundaries.