Data Brokers Opt Out With the Complete Opt-Out List

Below is every major data broker we track, what it publishes about you, how hard its opt-out is, how long the removal takes, and a direct link to the real form. All 45 of them. No email required, no signup, no affiliate links. If you work through this list you will have done, by hand, most of what a paid data removal service does for you. If you would rather pay someone to file them, the best data removal services compares who covers which of these sites.

Two pieces of advice before you start. Work top to bottom: the list is ordered so the highest-harm, lowest-effort removals come first. And do not skip the last section, because the marketing aggregators are what refill the rest.

Before you file, use your state's law

Twenty US states now have a comprehensive privacy law in effect, and each gives residents an enforceable right to deletion. Mentioning your state's statute in an opt-out request moves it from a support queue to a compliance queue, and the difference in response time is real.

Californians should start somewhere else entirely. The Delete Act created DROP, a state-run platform where one request reaches every registered data broker, of which there are over 600. Registered brokers must check it at least every 45 days and process deletion requests from 1 August 2026, at a penalty of $200 per day per ignored request. One form beats forty. Use it, then come back to this list for the brokers that are not registered.

How to read the difficulty column

• Easy: a web form, done in a few minutes, sometimes with an email confirmation link.
• Medium: a form plus a phone verification, an account, or a search-and-claim step.
• Hard: a mailed or faxed form, a notarised ID, or a multi-week manual review.

"Removal wait" is the time between a correctly filed request and the listing actually disappearing, as the broker states it and as we have observed it. It is not a promise anyone makes to you.

People-search sites (20)

They publish your home address to anyone, free, with no login. Do these first: highest harm, lowest effort.

People-search sites: what each broker exposes, opt-out difficulty, and removal wait

Broker	What it publishes	Difficulty	Wait	Opt out
Spokeo	Name, age, current and past home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, relatives, and social profiles.	Easy	3 to 7 days	Form
TruePeopleSearch	Full name, age, current address with a map, phone numbers, email addresses, and a list of relatives and associates.	Easy	24 to 72 hours	Form
Whitepages	Name, age range, current address, landline and mobile numbers, household members, and property details.	Medium	24 hours to 7 days	Form
PeopleFinders	Name, age, address history, phone numbers, relatives, and property records.	Easy	48 hours to 7 days	Form
FastPeopleSearch	Name, age, current and past addresses, phone numbers, emails, and relatives.	Easy	24 to 72 hours	Form
Radaris	Name, age, addresses, phone numbers, emails, relatives, employment history, and social profiles.	Medium	1 to 3 weeks	Form
MyLife	Name, age, addresses, phone numbers, relatives, and a "reputation score" assembled from public records.	Hard	2 to 6 weeks	Form
ThatsThem	Name, address, phone, email, IP address, and vehicle details in some listings.	Easy	1 to 7 days	Form
Nuwber	Name, age, addresses, phone numbers, emails, and relatives.	Easy	2 to 7 days	Form
SearchPeopleFree	Name, age, addresses, phone numbers, emails, and relatives.	Easy	24 to 72 hours	Form
FamilyTreeNow	Name, birth year, address history, relatives, and a mapped family tree.	Easy	48 hours to 7 days	Form
PeekYou	Name, city, linked social media accounts, usernames, and public web mentions.	Medium	5 to 10 days	Form
Spytox	Name, address, phone numbers, and relatives.	Easy	1 to 7 days	Form
Social Catfish	Name, photos, social profiles, email addresses, and phone numbers.	Easy	1 to 2 weeks	Form
Kiwi Searches	Name, address, phone numbers, and relatives.	Easy	1 to 2 weeks	Form
ZabaSearch	Name, age, address history, and phone numbers.	Medium	7 to 14 days	Form
AnyWho	Name, address, and landline phone listing.	Medium	24 hours to 7 days	Form
USPhoneBook	Name, age, current and past addresses, landline and cell numbers, and relatives, all reverse-searchable by phone number.	Easy	72 hours	Form
411.com	Name, age range, address, and phone numbers. Part of the Whitepages family.	Medium	24 hours to 7 days	Form
PublicRecordsNow	Name, address history, phone numbers, and relatives.	Easy	1 to 2 weeks	Form

Most of these have a full step-by-step guide, because their forms have traps in them: Spokeo, TruePeopleSearch, Whitepages, BeenVerified, Intelius, and Acxiom. The free lookups people find first are covered too: FastPeopleSearch removal, Radaris opt out, ThatsThem opt out, Nuwber opt out, MyLife opt out, PeopleFinders opt out, and the FamilyTreeNow opt out, which is worth doing early because it publishes your address history and relatives to anyone, with no account and no payment.

Background-check sites (13)

They sell a compiled report, but the free preview page confirms your address, age, and relatives.

Background-check sites: what each broker exposes, opt-out difficulty, and removal wait

Broker	What it publishes	Difficulty	Wait	Opt out
BeenVerified	Name, aliases, age, address history, phone numbers, emails, relatives, and pointers to court and property records.	Easy	24 hours to 7 days	Form
Intelius	Name, age, address history, phone numbers, relatives, and links to background and criminal record reports.	Medium	7 to 14 days	Form
TruthFinder	Name, address history, phone numbers, relatives, and background report teasers.	Medium	2 days to 2 weeks	Form
Instant Checkmate	Name, age, address history, phone numbers, relatives, and criminal-record report pointers.	Medium	2 days to 2 weeks	Form
US Search	Name, age, address history, phone numbers, and relatives.	Medium	7 to 14 days	Form
PeopleLooker	Name, age, address history, phone numbers, emails, and relatives.	Easy	24 hours to 7 days	Form
CyberBackgroundChecks	Name, age, addresses, phone numbers, emails, and relatives.	Easy	24 to 72 hours	Form
Advanced Background Checks	Name, age, addresses, phone numbers, and relatives.	Easy	1 to 7 days	Form
SmartBackgroundChecks	Name, age, addresses, phone numbers, emails, and relatives.	Easy	1 to 7 days	Form
CheckPeople	Name, age, address history, phone numbers, and relatives.	Easy	1 to 2 weeks	Form
InfoTracer	Name, address history, phone numbers, relatives, and court, arrest, and vehicle record pointers.	Easy	1 to 2 weeks	Form
BackgroundAlert	Name, address history, phone numbers, and relatives.	Easy	1 to 2 weeks	Form
IDTrue	Name, age, address history, phone numbers, and relatives.	Easy	1 to 2 weeks	Form

Note the shared portals. Intelius, TruthFinder, Instant Checkmate, US Search, and ZabaSearch are all PeopleConnect brands and route through one suppression portal, so handle them in a single session. Our walkthrough of the PeopleConnect suppression center covers that one request end to end, including why you have to file it yourself. Each brand still has its own quirks, and the guides cover them: TruthFinder opt out, Instant Checkmate opt out, and US Search opt out. BeenVerified, PeopleLooker, NeighborWho, and Ownerly share data but not opt-outs: each needs its own request.

Property and address records (5)

They index the house, then list who lives in it. The county deed stays public; the name-indexed copy does not have to.

Property and address records: what each broker exposes, opt-out difficulty, and removal wait

Broker	What it publishes	Difficulty	Wait	Opt out
NeighborWho	Home address, property value and history, current and past residents, and neighbour details.	Easy	24 hours to 7 days	Form
Ownerly	Home address, property ownership and value estimates, and resident history.	Easy	24 hours to 7 days	Form
ClustrMaps	Home address, residents at that address, and an interactive map of the property.	Easy	Not published, verify after a week	Form
Rehold	Home address, residents, neighbours, and property history.	Easy	1 to 2 weeks	Form
CoreLogic	Property and mortgage records tied to your name: ownership, transaction history, and tenant screening data.	Hard	4 to 6 weeks	Form

Marketing data aggregators (7)

They never publish a page about you. They supply the companies that do. Slowest to act on, most important to the durability of everything else.

Marketing data aggregators: what each broker exposes, opt-out difficulty, and removal wait

Broker	What it publishes	Difficulty	Wait	Opt out
Acxiom	Marketing profile: name, postal address, inferred income band, household composition, purchase categories, and life-event signals.	Medium	4 to 6 weeks	Form
LexisNexis Risk Solutions	Consolidated public-record and consumer-report file used for identity, insurance, and risk products: address history, real estate and ownership records, liens, judgments, bankruptcies, professional licenses, vehicles, and insurance claims history.	Hard	Up to 30 days for the opt out	Form
LiveRamp	Identity graph linking your email addresses, devices, and offline purchase history to an advertising ID.	Medium	2 to 6 weeks	Form
Experian (marketing data)	Marketing audience data: postal address, household demographics, and inferred purchase propensity. Separate from your credit file.	Medium	2 to 6 weeks	Form
Data Axle	Consumer and business marketing records: name, address, phone, and business affiliation.	Medium	2 to 6 weeks	Form
ZoomInfo	Work profile: full name, job title, employer, work email, and direct dial phone number.	Medium	2 to 4 weeks	Form
Epsilon	Direct-marketing profile: postal address, household data, and transactional purchase categories.	Medium	4 to 6 weeks	Form

Nothing visible happens when these succeed, which is why almost nobody files them. They are also the reason your people-search listings come back. Acxiom alone feeds a meaningful share of the sites in the first table. Read the Acxiom guide and set aside six weeks of patience.

Two opt-outs that sit beside this list

Neither of these removes a people-search listing, but both come up as soon as you start clearing your data, and both take a few minutes.

Prescreened credit and insurance offers. The opt-out at OptOutPrescreen.com, or 1-888-5-OPT-OUT, is run jointly by Equifax, Experian, TransUnion and Innovis under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Online or by phone it lasts five years; a permanent opt-out needs a signed form sent by mail. It is processed within five business days, though offers already printed can keep arriving for up to 60 days. The site blocks non-US connections, so turn off a VPN if it looks down. It stops firm offers of credit only. The credit header data that feeds people-search sites stays exactly where it was.

Junk mail. DMAchoice, the mail preference service run by the Association of National Advertisers, costs $8 online or $9 by mail for a 10-year registration. You choose among four categories (credit offers, catalogs, magazine offers and other mail offers), and participating companies receive the suppression file monthly. It does not cover companies you have done business with in the past two years, unaddressed mail, local retailers or political mail, and like the prescreen opt-out it removes nothing from a broker site. The listings in the tables above are the part that only an opt-out request, or a removal service that files them for you, takes down.

What to do when a broker ignores you

They do ignore people. In order of escalation:

1. Re-file, and this time name your state privacy statute in the free-text field. See the FAQ for which law applies where.
2. Email their privacy address directly, citing the date of your original request. Keep it short and dated.
3. Complain to your state attorney general. In states with a comprehensive privacy law, they enforce it.
4. If you are in California and the broker is registered, file through DROP. From 1 August 2026 ignoring it costs them $200 a day per request.

Then put it in your calendar

Here is the part that makes this list less useful than it looks. Every broker above regenerates listings from fresh public records. A deed, a voter file update, a change of address, a marketing file bought from an aggregator: any of them produces a new listing at a new URL, and your earlier opt-out has nothing to do with it. There is no permanent suppression list.

So finishing this list is not the end of the job. Re-run it quarterly at minimum, monthly if your exposure matters. Start the next pass with the exposure scan to see what your name returns now, then work down this page again. If you would rather be told than remember to look, a standing watch on where your name surfaces catches the new listing between passes.

Two things people ask once they have seen the size of the list. If it is one specific field driving the spam, the shortest route is removing your phone number from the internet, which is a smaller job than the whole footprint. And if you are weighing your twenty hours against a subscription, we put both prices side by side in how much data removal costs. Before you pick a service, check which of these brokers its plan actually reaches: the broker count on the pricing card often belongs to a higher tier, a gap we measured in the Optery review, the OneRep review and the Privacy Bee review. EasyOptOuts, the cheapest service that did well in independent testing, is covered in the EasyOptOuts review.

That loop is the entire product. DataRemoval scans 45 brokers, files each opt-out, verifies the removal, and re-scans every month. Everything on this page stays free regardless. If the loop sounds like something you will not actually run, let us run it for you.