Data Broker Opt-Out Guide: Free USA Tools That Work 2026
I started keeping a “name search” spreadsheet two years ago. Every Sunday evening I’d Google my full name in an incognito window, screenshot the first three result pages, and log which data brokers showed up, what address they had, which relatives they listed, and how recent the data looked. The first month, twenty-three different broker sites had me on file. By month six — after working through the playbook below — that number was down to four, and none of them ranked on the first page anymore. ...