Data brokers sell your name, address, phone number, and family details to anyone willing to pay — and most people have never opted out of a single one. The rules: 8 verified opt-out pages, 30 minutes, one checkbox per broker. Every link below was loaded and verified. Race yourself. Delete yourself.
Key figure: Reported cybercrime losses in the United States reached $16.6 billion in 2024, up 33% from 2023 (FBI IC3, 2024 Internet Crime Report).
A data broker is a company that collects your personal information — name, address, phone, relatives, property records — from public records and commercial sources, then sells profiles to anyone willing to pay. Most people have never heard of the brokers holding their file.
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Get TermsWatch early access →Most confirm within 72 hours and fully process within 2 to 8 weeks, depending on the broker. That's Them typically confirms within 72 hours. The listing stays visible while the request works through the queue, so re-check after a few days.
No. Brokers continuously ingest new public records and can quietly re-list you months later. Re-search your name on each broker every 3 to 6 months and re-submit when a listing reappears. Opting out is maintenance, not a one-time event.
No — legitimate opt-outs are always free. Never pay an individual broker a "removal fee." Paid services like DeleteMe or Kanary exist to do the repetitive re-submission work across dozens of brokers for you, which is a different thing from paying the broker itself.
Both lost their domains to Atlas Data Privacy Corporation under New Jersey's Daniel's Law — Radaris.com was seized by a Superior Court order on August 27, 2026, and PeekYou's domain was taken over after a settled lawsuit. Dead brokers need no opt-out.
People-search sites first: Whitepages and the PeopleConnect family (Intelius, TruthFinder, InstantCheckmate, USSearch). These are the listings most likely to be used for doxxing, stalking, and harassment — and their opt-out flows are the easiest on this page.
Most breach headlines begin with data that was already for sale. Brokers aggregate your name, address, phone, relatives, and property records into profiles anyone can buy — attackers use them for targeting, phishing, and identity theft. Opting out shrinks your attack surface before a breach makes the news. Eight brokers, thirty minutes, one scoreboard: that is the whole sprint.
Every major data broker has a free opt-out page — find your listing, submit the form, confirm by email. Never pay a broker a removal fee; paid services only do the repetitive work for you.
Confirmation usually arrives within 72 hours; full removal commonly takes 2 to 8 weeks. Brokers re-ingest public records, so re-check every 3 to 6 months.
No — brokers can re-list you from new data sources, so opting out is recurring maintenance, not a one-time fix.
No. Legitimate opt-outs are always free. Paid services like DeleteMe or Kanary exist to do the repetitive work for you, but never pay an individual broker a removal fee.
Both lost their domains to Atlas Data Privacy Corporation under New Jersey's Daniel's Law — Radaris.com was seized by court order on August 27, 2026, and PeekYou's domain was taken over after a settled lawsuit. There's nothing left to opt out of.
People-search sites first: Whitepages and the PeopleConnect family (Intelius, TruthFinder, InstantCheckmate, USSearch). These are the listings most likely to be used for doxxing, stalking, and harassment — and their opt-out flows are the easiest on this page.