What we cannot remove
Nobody in this industry publishes this page, which is why so many customers end up feeling cheated. You are going to find out about these limits eventually — we would rather you heard it from us now than discovered it after paying for a year.
We cannot make you invisible. What we can do is remove the commercial layer that turns scattered public records into a searchable profile of your life, prove each removal, and keep it down. That is a genuinely valuable thing, and it is not the same as disappearing.
Court records and case dockets
Court proceedings are public by constitutional design. Filings, dockets, judgments and case numbers are open records, and the only route to restricting them is a judge granting sealing or expungement.
Where a record has been expunged or sealed, we can force the commercial databases to stop reporting it — which is a different and very achievable thing. See Fair Chance.
Property deeds and tax assessments
County recorders and assessors publish ownership, sale price and assessed value as a matter of statute. It is how the property system works and it is not going to change for you.
Many states permit redaction of a home address for law enforcement, judges, prosecutors, child-protection staff and domestic violence survivors. For future purchases, entity ownership keeps your name off the next deed. We can also remove the commercial sites that republish county data in far more searchable form, which is most of the practical benefit.
Voter registration
Voter rolls are public in most states, and in several they are sold to anyone who asks.
Most states run an Address Confidentiality Program that substitutes an alternative address on the roll for survivors and protected persons. Enrolment is usually through the Secretary of State.
Professional licences
Licensing boards publish licensee names, licence numbers and status by law. Doctors, nurses, lawyers, therapists, realtors, contractors — the register is the point of the register.
You can usually change the address on file to a practice or registered-agent address. That is more durable than any removal request, because every downstream directory scrapes from the board.
News articles and archives
Published journalism is protected speech. There is no right to be forgotten in the United States, and there is not going to be one.
Some outlets operate their own review processes for old crime coverage and will consider de-indexing or updating a story with the case outcome. It is a request to an editor, not a legal demand, and it sometimes works.
Anything already breached, copied or downloaded
Data that has leaked is copied and traded. Any company claiming to delete your information from the dark web is not telling you the truth, and that claim is a reliable signal to stop reading.
What works after a breach is invalidating what was stolen: change the password and every reuse of it, freeze your credit, replace security-question answers, and move two-factor off SMS.
Social media posts and forum content
Third-party platforms and the people posting on them are outside any removal process. A forum thread containing your address is not a data broker listing.
Platform reporting, and where content is copied from you, a DMCA notice. Both are escalations rather than removals, and both are slower and less certain than broker work.
Marriage, divorce and birth records
Vital records are public or semi-public in most jurisdictions, with access rules set by state law.
Some states restrict access to certified copies while leaving an index entry public. We can remove commercial sites that republish the index, which is what is actually searchable.
Business registrations and corporate filings
Secretary of State filings are public, including registered agent addresses.
This one is often self-inflicted and easy to fix: a great many people use their home address as a registered agent address. Switch to a commercial registered agent and file an amendment.
Your own future exposure
Every new address, phone number, property purchase, professional licence and public filing creates a new record. Removal is not a state you reach; it is a process you maintain.
This is the single most honest argument for a subscription, and we would rather make it plainly than dress up a one-off sweep as a solution. Brokers re-list every three to six months.
If a service tells you any of this, stop
Not necessarily fraud, but a reliable indicator that the marketing has got ahead of the product.
- “We remove your data from the entire internet.”
- “We delete your information from the dark web.”
- “Become completely untraceable.”
- “We guarantee 100% removal.”
- “We remove your criminal record.”
- “Your court records will be erased.”
If we ever publish a sentence like one of those, write to us and we will take it down.
What we do claim
- We file against 630+ data brokers and people-search sites.
- We use the strongest legal instrument available for your state, including California's DROP platform.
- We evidence every removal with a before and after screenshot, a content hash and a timestamp.
- We re-verify at 7, 30 and 90 days, then every 45 days, and refile automatically when a listing reappears.
- We publish our aggregate removal rate monthly, with the methodology, whatever it says.
- We have never owned or operated a data broker, and we publish an ownership disclosure.
Still worth doing?
For most people, yes. A deed filed in a county office is technically public and practically obscure. The same information on a free people-search site, indexed by Google, is a stranger finding your house in four seconds. Closing that gap is the whole job, and it is achievable.