Find every data broker selling your home address and phone number, then get removed from all of them for free. Total cost: one evening and zero dollars.
People-search sites like Spokeo and Whitepages scrape public records and sell your address, phone number, relatives, and past homes to anyone with a credit card. There are hundreds of these sites. Services like DeleteMe charge over $100 a year to clean them up. You are about to do the same job with Claude, free.
Open a private browser window and Google your full name in quotes, plus your city. Then run it again with your name plus "address" and once more with your phone number. Private window matters because you want the results a stranger sees, not results personalized to you.
Copy every result that shows your personal info. The site name and the URL is enough. Fair warning: seeing it all in one place is unsettling. That's the point. Now you know exactly what you're cleaning up.
Open Claude at claude.ai and make sure web search is turned on in the settings or the tools menu. Without it, Claude can't look anything up and this whole play falls apart. Then paste this:
Claude comes back with the full rundown: the big names like Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, and Radaris, plus the sketchy clones you've never heard of. For a typical US adult, expect somewhere between 25 and 50 listings. Don't panic at the number. You're about to work the list.
Most brokers have a self-serve opt-out form, and for those you just fill in the form Claude linked. But some make you email them, and some ignore casual requests. That's where the legal letter comes in. Paste this next:
The CCPA is the California law that gives residents the right to have their data deleted, and 45 days is the response window it sets. Many brokers apply one removal process to everyone rather than checking your state, and a growing number of other states have passed similar laws. If you live in California, you have the strongest hand here. Either way, a letter citing specific law gets processed faster than "please remove me."
Now your only job is execution. Work the list top to bottom, worst offenders first. Fill out the opt-out forms, send the letters. Copy, paste, hit send. Most people finish the first pass in about an hour. One episode of TV.
Before you close the tab, have Claude build your tracker:
Paste it into a sheet and update it as confirmations come in. Two things to expect: some brokers make you click a confirmation link they email you, and removals take anywhere from a couple of days to a few weeks to actually disappear from search. Both are normal. The tracker is what keeps you from wondering whether you actually finished.
Here's the catch nobody tells you: these sites re-scrape public records. Get removed in January and you can reappear by summer. This is exactly why the paid services charge annually instead of once.
Your fix is a calendar event every 90 days: re-run the Step 2 prompt, compare against your tracker, and opt out of anything that came back. First pass takes an evening. Every pass after takes 15 minutes, because you already have the letters and the links. That's the whole maintenance plan.
Everybody's using AI to get famous. You just used it to disappear.
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