The Sirveil Briefing
Guides, research, and actionable advice on removing your data from brokers and protecting your digital identity — and how the same evidence works for businesses that have to prove what they looked at.
Step-by-step removal instructions for specific data brokers.
Remove your record from BeenVerified: search at beenverified.com/f/optout/search, select your record, and confirm by email. Covers the LTVCO sibling sites — but NOT Intelius or TruthFinder. Process verified July 2026.
Remove your profile from Radaris: copy your profile URL, submit it at radaris.com/control-privacy with your email, and confirm. No account required under the current process. Process verified July 2026.
Remove your listing from Spokeo: copy your listing URL, submit it at spokeo.com/optout with your email, and confirm via the email link. Free, no account needed, ~24–72 hours. Process verified July 2026.
The fastest opt-out of the big people-search sites — truepeoplesearch.com/removal, email confirmation, ~72 hours — and one of the quickest to relist you. Process verified July 2026.
Remove your profile from Whitepages: submit your profile URL at whitepages.com/suppression-requests and verify with an automated phone call. ~24–72 hours. Process verified July 2026.
What data brokers hold on you, your legal rights (CCPA/CPRA, the California Delete Act, state privacy laws), the manual removal process step by step, and honest time estimates.
Opt out of 20+ data brokers with this complete guide. Broker-by-broker instructions, time estimates, and difficulty ratings for every major people-search site.
How the data broker economy works — and what it knows about you.
Proposed sections 7630 through 7633 would require every registered data broker to undergo an independent audit of its DROP deletion processing, with the first report due 1 November 2028 covering a period that opened on 1 August 2026. The disqualification list for auditors is unusually broad, and the certification of the auditor's independence is signed by the broker's own executive management under penalty of perjury.
Most Californians who file a DROP request picture the same thing: their name gone from the companies that trade in it. The statute means something narrower, and the narrowing is done almost entirely by four definitions — who counts as a data broker, what counts as personal information, what counts as a sale, and what deletion permits a company to keep. None of it is hidden. All of it is worth reading before you decide the system failed you.
33 registered data brokers we contacted had no working email path. 15 bounced. 18 replied to say email is not a channel they accept, which is legitimate. Two published addresses cannot receive mail at all — one domain does not exist, the other declares that it accepts none. This is a field report, not an accusation, and the distinction is the whole point.
Privacy rulemaking looks like weather — a comment window opens, you write something, it closes. That's one of two doors. In Connecticut, New Jersey, Oregon and Texas, any interested person can petition an agency to write a rule, and the agency must answer in writing on a statutory deadline.
What the California Delete Act (SB 362) does, how the DROP platform works, what changed when broker processing obligations began on 1 August 2026, when the first mandatory 45-day cycle closes, and what DROP does and does not cover.
Step-by-step guide to removing your personal data from Spokeo, BeenVerified, Whitepages, and more. DIY opt-out instructions plus automated alternatives.
Inside the $290B data broker industry. Who the major players are, how your data flows from collection to sale, and what you can do to opt out.
Data brokers make personal info searchable, enabling stalking and doxxing. Learn how people-search sites put you at risk and how to remove your data.
Data brokers collect and sell your personal information in a $290B+ industry. Learn how they operate, who buys your data, and what you can do about it.
Everything else worth knowing.
We aggregated line 6c of every pension Form 5500 filed for 2024 and got 32.2 million separated participants entitled to a future benefit. Here is the figure, the full method so you can check it, and — importantly — what the number does not mean.
ERISA requires fiduciaries to search for missing participants and, separately, to be able to demonstrate they did. Plans rarely fail the first duty. They fail the second — and a 2025 bulletin quietly gave that documentation duty real teeth.
CCPA and CPRA are one California law, not two. Here's what each added, which of the 20 state privacy laws gives you deletion and opt-out rights, and what to do if your state has none.
Step-by-step guide to sending a CCPA deletion request, with a free copy-paste template. Who must comply, the 45-day deadline, verification, and what to do when a business ignores you.
DHS and CBP hold travel histories, border crossing records, Global Entry files, and screening data. Since January 22, 2026 you must request them electronically — here's exactly how.
Complete guide to all 20 US state data privacy laws in 2026. Know your rights for data broker opt-out, deletion, and the California DELETE Act.
Learn how to check if your data has been breached using free tools like HaveIBeenPwned, Mozilla Monitor, and DeHashed. Step-by-step guide with next steps.
AI powers both data brokers and privacy tools. Learn how AI-native removal services outperform legacy competitors and why the distinction matters.
No data removal service can guarantee 100% results. Here's why 30-40% of removed data reappears, what actually works, and what to look for in a service.
Your SSN sells for $1-6 on the dark web, but costs you thousands in damage. Full price breakdown of stolen data and why data broker removal is worth it.
Learn how to file a FOIA request to discover what personal data federal agencies hold about you. Step-by-step guide with templates, timelines, and fee waiver tips.
The same question the app answers for you, as an API — for teams that have to show their work.
The Sirveil Exposure Verification API answers one narrow question: is a named person currently indexed on a named public website? It returns the matched evidence — the URL, a snippet, and a retrieval timestamp — in one of three states: indexed, not indexed, or indeterminate. It reports uncertainty rather than guessing, which matters when someone reads the record back to you months later.
Compliance teams, plan fiduciaries, claims administrators and counsel use it where the deliverable isn’t the finding — it’s the dated, replayable proof that the search happened.
The business API is a separate product from the Sirveil consumer app, billed separately and metered per call. It is not a consumer reporting agency, background screening or locator service, and its terms prohibit uses governed by the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
SammyTM keeps watch around the clock.
Scan, verify, remove: Sirveil finds where brokers list you, you confirm what’s yours, and your takedown requests are prepared, transmitted, and chased on your behalf — tracked end to end.
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