Get your home address off people-search sites
Type your name into 192.com and see what a stranger sees: your address, who you live with, sometimes your age. This mission gets you off it, and off the copy of the electoral register those sites buy, in about 30 minutes, for free, using official routes. US readers get the big American brokers too.
- For US readers: the right order to work through the US brokers, with what each form actually asks for
- A 3-monthly re-check routine, because these sites re-list people
- A list of the addresses you've lived at in the last few years, with postcodes or ZIP codes
- An email address you can use just for this (step 2 sets it up)
- About 30 minutes for the UK steps. Set aside an evening for the US list
- Nothing to install. You do this in your normal browser
See what a stranger sees
Two minutes on 192.com shows you exactly what you're removing, and why it's worth the half hour.
Open 192.com ↗, type your name and town, and search. Look at what comes up for free, then at what the site offers to sell: past addresses, other people at your address, age guides, a map of your street.
Write down every listing that's you, and the postcode of each address it shows. You'll need one removal form per address in step 3.
Download the opt-out tracker (it opens in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets). It already lists every site in this mission with its official opt-out link. Fill in a row as you go.
TipSearch in a private or incognito browser window while signed out of Google, so you see the public listing a stranger would see, not a version shaped by your own logins and history.CarefulThese sites are full of upsell buttons ("see full report", "protect your identity"). You never need to pay to see or remove a listing in this mission. If a page asks for card details, you're in the wrong place.