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Who is publishing your home address right now?
People-search sites publish your name, address, phone number, age and relatives, and you never agreed to any of it. This builds your personal check-and-remove list. Eleven opt-outs clear nearly eighty sites, because the industry is far more consolidated than it looks.
To be concrete about the scale: a single record on one of these services can hold every address you have lived at going back thirty years, every email address you have ever used, and every phone number, all cross-linked to your relatives. Not a summary of you. A dossier.
Why this is free, and why we are not selling you a subscription
Consumer Reports ran the only real test of this. Thirty-two volunteers, seven paid removal services, thirteen people-search sites, tracked over four months.
| Service | Profiles removed | Method | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doing it yourself, by hand | 70%, most within the first week | Manual, this list | Free |
| Optery | 68% in four months | Automated, with manual follow-up on brokers that will not accept a script | $39 to $249 per year, four tiers |
| EasyOptOuts | 65% | Fully automated, no manual step at all | $19.99 per year, one plan |
| IDX | 40% | Automated scans and takedown requests | $139.92 per year, Privacy plan |
| Kanary | 34% | Hybrid, automation plus short manual steps you complete yourself | About $180 per year, or a limited free tier |
| DeleteMe | 27% | Automated, with a human privacy advisor for cases it cannot clear | $129 per year, individual plan |
| ReputationDefender | 6% | Manual, a human team manages your case | About $1,000 per year and up, quoted after a sales call |
| Confidently | 4% | Automated | $120 per year ($10 per month) |
Source: Consumer Reports, Data Defense: Evaluating People-Search Site Removal Services, August 2024. Their own caveat is worth repeating: the sample is small and they do not consider it statistically significant. Method and cost were checked directly against each company's own pricing and help pages in September 2026, entry-tier individual plans, and both change often enough that they are worth confirming again before you compare.
An hour of your own time beat every paid subscription in that study. That is the whole reason this page exists and has nothing behind a form.
What this will not do
- It will not remove public records. Your county property deed, voter registration and court filings are public by law. That is the source that keeps refilling the brokers.
- It will not clear you from Google. Google's own removal tool hides the link, not the page. In Google's words, the information still exists on the source page. It hides the door, it does not empty the room.
- It will not be permanent. Nothing is. Removal is a habit, not an errand, which is why the reminder step matters more than any single opt-out.
If you run a business from home, read this first
You want your business easy to find and yourself hard to find. Those pull against each other and the tools do not know the difference.
Hiding your address on a Google Business Profile can cost you local ranking, and it does nothing anywhere else. Google controls Google. The business data aggregators keep publishing your listing, home address included, to everything downstream. That is separate work from the list above, and doing the personal opt-outs first is the right order.
This page is procedure, not legal advice. It tells you where the forms are and what to expect. For what you are entitled to, talk to a lawyer.
Why an AI consultancy wrote this
Fair question. I run Spearworks AI in Happy Valley and most of my work is getting small businesses found: Google Business Profiles, local search, the directories that feed everything else. Making a business easy to find and making a person hard to find are the same skill pointed in opposite directions.
I built this because I kept running into the problem on behalf of clients, and every guide I found was either stale, incomplete, or quietly selling a subscription. So I worked through it by hand and wrote down what actually happened, including the parts where the published advice was wrong.
There is nothing to buy on this page. If you run a business and your home address is showing up where it should not, or your listings are wrong across the directories, that is the part I do for a living. Otherwise take the list and go.