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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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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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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.
- Tech & Law
California's Delete Act and DROP: one request to every registered data broker
California's DROP lets residents send one deletion request to every registered data broker. How it works, why August 2026 matters, and what it will not cover.
- Company Research
Reading a Secretary of State business filing, field by field
What each field on a state business record means, from status and formation date to registered agent and officers, with a fictional example and red flags.
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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.