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Follow your data trail
See where your name, address and phone number end up, and how to pull them back out of people-search sites and broker files.
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Company research
Check a business before you sign or pay: state filings, licenses, complaint records and the warning signs. We also explain how registries and tax IDs work in Argentina, Chile and elsewhere in Latin America.
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How to remove yourself from TruePeopleSearch
How to remove yourself from TruePeopleSearch: the removal page, the security check, the phone opt-out in its privacy notice, look-alike sites and rechecks.
- Remove Your Data
Nuwber opt-out: how to remove your listing, and the older ones too
How the Nuwber opt-out works at the time of writing: find each listing, send its link, confirm by email, then log and recheck every old address you have.
- Public Records Explained
Voter files: who gets your registration record, and how to limit it
What your voter registration record contains, who can get a copy in your state, what you can keep off it, and the one trade-off you cannot avoid if you vote.
- Remove Your Data
Google's Results about you tool: what it removes and what it can't
What Google's Results about you tool does, screen by screen, what it will and won't remove from Search, and how to pair it with people-search opt-outs.
- Latin America
Researching a company in Mexico, Chile and Colombia: the open registries
How to check a company in Mexico, Chile or Colombia with free official sources: tax IDs, company registries, gazettes and the SAT's 69-B list, explained.
- Data Privacy
Your phone number links more of your life than you think
Your phone number is a login, a recovery key and a search term. How SIM swaps work, how to lock your carrier account, and when a second number makes sense.
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A name, an ID number, a birth date and an address are personal data, even when a public office holds them. Laws such as Argentina's Law 25.326, the European GDPR and the new state privacy laws in the United States give you a right to see what a company keeps about you and, in many cases, to have it corrected or deleted. The guides here show how to use those rights, one request at a time.