Your social media profiles are one of the biggest sources of personal information that data brokers use to build profiles about you. Your name, location, employer, birthday, phone number, family members, interests, and photos — data brokers scrape all of it and add it to the profiles they sell to advertisers, background check companies, and … Read more
Imagine waking up one morning and your phone has no signal. No calls, no texts, no data. You restart it — nothing. You call your carrier from another phone and discover that someone called them pretending to be you, convinced them to transfer your phone number to a new SIM card, and now they control … Read more
If you’ve tried to remove yourself from Radaris, you already know it’s one of the most frustrating data broker sites on the internet. While sites like TruePeopleSearch let you opt out in a few clicks, Radaris has earned a reputation as a “dishonorable data broker” — a site that makes the removal process intentionally difficult … Read more
You get an email that looks like it’s from your bank. It uses your real name. It references your actual address. It even mentions a recent transaction that seems familiar. Everything about it screams legitimate — except it’s not. It’s a phishing email, and the scammer behind it knows your personal details because data brokers … Read more
Of all the data broker sites out there, MyLife might be the most aggressive — and the most infuriating. Not only does MyLife publish your name, address, phone number, and personal details like every other people search site, but it also assigns you a public “Reputation Score” that anyone can see. A number, generated by … Read more
Is DeleteMe worth the $129/year price tag? If you’re researching data removal services, DeleteMe is probably one of the first names you’ve come across — they’ve been around since 2011 and have endorsements from the New York Times, PCMag, and Wirecutter. But being well-known doesn’t automatically mean being the best value. We researched DeleteMe alongside … Read more
Whether it’s an ex, a stalker, a scammer, or just a nosy coworker — there are plenty of reasons you might want to stop people from finding you online. The problem is that right now, anyone who knows your name can find your home address, phone number, age, family members, and more in about 30 … Read more
When was the last time you Googled yourself? If the answer is “never” or “I can’t remember,” you’re overdue. Because right now, anyone — your boss, your date, your neighbor, a scammer — can type your name into Google and find your home address, phone number, age, family members, and more in seconds. You should … Read more
Every time you give out your real phone number — to a website, an app, a store, a delivery service — that number gets collected, sold to data brokers, and eventually ends up on people search sites where anyone can find it. That’s why you get so many spam calls and why strangers can find … Read more
One of the easiest things you can do to protect your privacy — and it’s completely free — is to set up Google Alerts for your name. Every time Google finds new content mentioning your name online, you’ll get an email notification. No more wondering if your personal information has popped up on a new … Read more