Address Privacy DIY Guide
Get your home address off people-search and data broker sites, step by step. Free tools first, then opt-outs, request letters and a log to keep the proof.
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- 8 steps
- 22-site opt-out directory
- 4 letters
- California DROP walkthrough
Your address is one search away
People-search sites publish profiles anyone can look up, often with a home address, phone number and relatives' names. California's privacy agency warns that data brokers "may also sell information to buyers with malicious intent, such as hate groups, hostile foreign governments, and scammers." CalPrivacy
Doing it yourself works. In a 2024 Consumer Reports study, manual opt-outs removed 70% of profiles within a week; the seven paid removal services tested removed between 0% and 58.7% in the first week. Those services charge every year, from about $20 to $249. Consumer Reports, Aug 8, 2024
What you get
- A one-page checklist to print and work through.
- Google's free "Results about you" tool, step by step: find results that show your address and ask Google to remove them.
- A 22-site opt-out directory with each site's official opt-out page, what it asks for and how long it says it takes. The big families first, so one request can clear several sites.
- California's DROP walkthrough: one free request to 660+ registered data brokers, for California residents.
- Four ready-to-send letters (A to D) for state privacy-law requests, follow-ups, plain removal requests and "what do you hold on me".
- A request log and re-check plan, because listings can come back.
Step one is free
Open Google's Results about you, add your address, and ask Google to remove the results that show it. It hides results from Google Search; it doesn't delete the page. The guide picks up from there and takes the listings down at the source.
What it can and can't do
Do-it-yourself opt-outs and requests only. No paid service needed. Listings can come back, so the guide includes a re-check plan.
Public records at the source (county property and court records), data a company keeps because a law lets it, and private broker databases are out of reach for any DIY method. California's DROP doesn't cover publicly available data, which is why the site-by-site opt-outs still matter. Every step says what the site or agency itself says it does.
If you are hiding from someone who may harm you, talk to a domestic-violence advocate before you start; the guide points to your state's Address Confidentiality Program.
For general information and education only. Not legal or financial advice. Not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any data broker, people-search site, search engine, removal service or government agency. Links and steps checked October 30, 2026.
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