Personal Data Removal
Your home address, phone number, relatives' names, and a surprising amount of other personal detail are almost certainly sitting on a data broker or people-search site right now, available to anyone willing to pay a few dollars or sometimes nothing at all. For most people that's just unsettling. For executives, public figures, people dealing with a stalker or an abusive ex, or anyone who's been targeted before, it's a real security problem — it's the raw material an attacker uses for harassment, doxxing, social engineering, or worse.
Why this is harder than it looks
The frustrating part of data broker removal is that there isn't one place to go. Dozens of sites aggregate and resell the same underlying data, each with its own opt-out process, and new ones pop up as fast as old ones get taken down. Some sites make removal genuinely difficult on purpose — opt-out forms that don't work, required verification steps that ask for more personal data than they're removing, or removals that quietly reappear a few months later because the underlying data source refreshed.
How I handle it
I start by finding out what's actually out there — a real search across the major data broker and people-search platforms to see what information is exposed and where. From there, I work through the opt-out and removal process site by site, which is tedious by design but doable when someone's actually tracking it instead of giving up after the first failed attempt. For people with a higher threat profile, I also look at where the data is coming from in the first place — public records, data breaches, social media exposure — so removal isn't just a one-time cleanup that quietly undoes itself.
This isn't a "set it and forget it" problem. Data brokers re-scrape and re-list, so I build in follow-up checks rather than treating the first pass as the end of the engagement.
Who this is for
Executives and public-facing professionals who are realistic targets for social engineering or physical risk, people recovering from harassment, stalking, or domestic violence situations, and anyone who's simply decided they don't want their home address a Google search away.
If you want to know what's actually exposed about you right now, reach out and we'll find out.