Data Broker Opt Out: Opt Out of Data Brokers and People-Search Sites
Scan first to see which of these 50 brokers are actually publishing you, then work the list below. Each site links to its own opt-out guide with the real link.
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The short answer
To opt out of data brokers, file a separate removal at each site, cite your right to delete, and re-check monthly.
There is no single switch that clears every broker. You find each site publishing you, open its own opt-out form, verify your identity, and where you are a California resident, name your right to delete under the CCPA and CPRA. Then you confirm by email and re-scan every month or two, because brokers rebuild your profile from fresh public records. The full list, with the direct opt-out link for each of 50 sites, is below.
Last updated July 2026. Covering 50 data brokers and people-search sites.
The process
How to opt out of data brokers, step by step
The mechanics are the same at almost every site. The work is in the repetition, and in staying on top of relisting after the first pass.
Find out who is publishing you
Run a free scan or search your name and city. You are looking for people-search listings that show your home address, phone number, age and relatives. Write down every site that has a profile, because you cannot opt out of a broker you have not found.
Open each site's opt-out page
Every broker on the list below has its own opt-out form, portal or email. Use the direct link in each guide rather than digging through the footer, and file from an email address you control so they can verify you.
Cite the law where it applies
If you are a California resident, name your right to delete under the CCPA and CPRA. For B2B contact brokers, cite erasure under GDPR Article 17. A request that names the statute carries a legal deadline, a polite opt-out does not.
Confirm, then re-check
Click the confirmation email or the request quietly dies. Removals take a few days to a few weeks. Then re-scan every month or two, because brokers rebuild profiles from fresh public records and put you back.
The list
Data broker opt out list
Every site below has a free opt-out. Open its guide for the direct link, the legal basis, the processing time and the relisting risk, all read from the site's own policy.
People-search sites
Consumer-facing sites that publish your name, age, current and past addresses, phone numbers and relatives, assembled from public records and sold to anyone.
Background-check sites
Sites that compile and sell background reports, exposing address history, phone numbers and relatives in a free preview to pull buyers in.
Data brokers
Business-grade brokers that aggregate contact and identity records, including the B2B contact databases that leak your work email and phone.
Marketing data brokers
Companies that build advertising and audience profiles from your data and sell the segments to marketers and platforms.
Search engine removals
The official tools that take your personal information and outdated pages out of search results, so a name search stops surfacing them.
Do it yourself, or don't
When to opt out by hand and when to pay
If three or four sites are publishing you, opt out by hand. The guides above have every link you need and it costs nothing but an afternoon. Most people can clear the sites that actually rank for their name in a single sitting.
If thirty sites have you, or your address matters for your safety, the math changes. Filing dozens of requests and re-filing every time a broker relists you is the part people quit on. Deindex files each request under a named legal basis, keeps a dated before-and-after screenshot, and re-files automatically when you reappear. See the best data removal service comparison to judge that honestly. Broker opt-outs are one part of a larger job, so if you are working through everything at once, follow the full worklist for removing your information from the internet, which covers the search results, the old accounts and the legal deadlines as well.
FAQ
Questions about opting out of data brokers
Find every broker publishing you, open each site's opt-out form, verify your identity when asked, and cite your right to delete under the CCPA and CPRA where it applies. Confirm by email, then re-check in a month, because brokers relist. The list below links the direct opt-out for each site.
There is no single button that opts you out of every broker at once. The closest thing is a maintained list of each site with its own opt-out link, which is what this page is. California residents can also use the state's DROP registry, though it does not cover every people-search site.
Yes. Every broker opt-out is free and the direct links are on this page. It costs time, not money. The catch is volume and relisting: you are filing dozens of separate requests and then repeating them as sites rebuild your profile from new public records.
Each individual removal takes a few days to a few weeks. Doing all of them by hand is an afternoon of work spread across dozens of forms, plus ongoing checks. Statutory delete requests carry deadlines: 45 days under the CCPA, and one month under GDPR Article 17.
Routinely. Brokers re-ingest public records, so a profile removed in one month can reappear the next from a fresh voter file or property record. This is why opting out is a recurring task, not a one-time fix, and why the size of the initial list matters less than staying on top of relisting.
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Start with the sites that actually have you
The free scan checks all 50 brokers on this list and shows you which ones are publishing your address, phone and relatives. Opt out of those first, then decide whether the rest is a job for an afternoon or for a service.