Address removal for journalists facing coordinated harassment
Harassment of journalists is usually coordinated and fast, and it frequently begins with a published home address. The window between a story going live and your address circulating can be hours, which means removal after the fact is far less effective than removal before.
Shield
For people whose home address being public is a physical risk.
- Coverage
- 1,000+ sources plus a manual sweep
- Cadence
- Rescanned weekly
Why the generic advice doesn't fit
Most privacy guidance is written for someone with no particular threat. Yours is specific, so the priorities change.
- Timing is the whole game. Removal before a sensitive story publishes is worth an order of magnitude more than removal afterwards.
- Republication is the failure mode: once an address is in a forum post or a screenshot, broker removal does not reach it.
- You may need documented evidence of exposure for a platform escalation or a police report.
- 01Complete broker removal well ahead of any sensitive publication.
- 02Household members at the same time.
- 03Weekly monitoring around publication dates.
- 04An evidence archive, timestamped, in case escalation becomes necessary.
Two fields, no account, no card. See what is actually out there before deciding anything.
We cannot remove content from forums, social platforms or archive sites, and we will not claim to. What we can do is reduce the supply of accurate address data before a campaign starts, and document what appears once it does.
The sites to take down first
Free and unpaywalled, which means anyone can use them with no account and no skill. These are the real risk.
Who else we write for
- Survivors of domestic violence and stalking
- Law enforcement officers
- Judges and prosecutors
- Doctors, nurses and healthcare workers
- Teachers and school staff
- Social workers and child protection staff
- Therapists and mental health clinicians
- Public officials and election workers
- Executives and board members
- Military service members and veterans