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Delist My Data is a Seattle-based service that finds and removes personal information from data broker and people-search sites, and publishes free opt-out guides for the brokers it covers.
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Delist My Data removes people's names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and relatives from data broker and people-search sites. It searches a catalog of 500+ sites, files each opt-out, re-checks monthly for re-listings, and publishes a free, step-by-step opt-out guide for every broker it covers, so anyone can do the removals themselves. The company is based in Seattle, Washington, and was founded in 2026.
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Data brokers and people-search sites compile names, home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, ages, and relatives into public profiles that anyone can look up. Delist My Data is a Seattle-based service that finds those listings and gets them taken down. It searches a catalog of 500+ data broker and people-search sites for a person's records, files the opt-out or suppression request each site requires, records the result, and re-scans monthly, because many brokers re-list people after a removal. Alongside the paid service, the company publishes free opt-out guides, one per broker, showing the actual form, the fields it asks for, and what to expect afterward, plus explainers on how the people-search industry works and which companies own which sites. The guides need no account or purchase. Delist My Data was founded in 2026 by Edward Fancher. The removal service is currently opening to a waitlist; the guides are live.
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- Delist My Data publishes 39 free, step-by-step opt-out guides, one per data broker or people-search site, and 13 explainers on the people-search industry. Every guide shows the broker's actual opt-out form.
- California's Data Broker Registry, maintained by the California Privacy Protection Agency, listed 865 registered data brokers when we pulled it on September 1, 2026 (registry). Many of the people-search sites on it are storefronts run by the same company. Our who owns PeopleConnect explainer works through one example.
- Delist My Data is pre-launch. The removal service is open to a waitlist; the opt-out guides and explainers are live and free. Please describe it that way. We will update this page when the service opens.
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Where we stand
We want comprehensive privacy law adopted across the United States. California residents can now file one deletion request through the state's Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP), and every data broker registered in California has to act on it. Unfortunately, citizens of other states do not have the same rights. Until they do, our aim is to give everyone else the same ease: one request, every broker we cover, without a law to compel it. We will always stand for the adoption of better privacy laws in the United States. We have no affiliation with any data broker or people search services.
Founder
Edward Fancher, Founder. Edward is a Seattle software engineer who has built and run online businesses for more than ten years, working across Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, cloud infrastructure, and information security. Before Delist My Data he worked on payment integrity at Blackhawk Network, led the redesign of the United Nations Capital Development Fund's Better Than Cash Alliance site, and has spent the last five years working in the health software industry. He is a graduate of New York University's Stern School of Business.
He founded Delist My Data in Seattle in 2026 and writes its opt-out guides and broker research, including which companies operate which people-search sites and how their opt-out processes behave in practice. He is available to comment on data brokers, people-search sites, opt-out and suppression processes, and what removal services can and cannot deliver. Edward on LinkedIn.
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Company details
- Legal name: Delist My Data
- Founded: 2026, Seattle, Washington
- Address: 1700 7th Avenue Suite 2100, Seattle, WA 98101
- Website: delistmydata.com
- Category: data removal / personal information removal service
For how we handle the data behind removal requests, see Security and the Privacy Policy.