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Opt out of AnyWho.com

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  • Removal difficulty: High
  • Profile is removed within: 4 weeks
  • Manual submission: around 20 min
  • Removal requirements: email, identity verification
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What is AnyWho?

AnyWho.com is a people-search website collecting information from yellow and white pages. The site provides search by name, phone number, and area code. AnyWho.com pulls information from Intelius.com, a major data broker in the industry. To remove your record from AnyWho, you need to remove it from Intelius.

How to remove your information from Intelius?

In short:

  1. Go to Data Suppression Center suppression.peopleconnect.us/login 
  2. Submit your email
  3. Follow the verification link sent to your email
  4. Submit your birth date
  5. Submit your legal name
  6. Select a matching profile
  7. Verify your identity if necessary
  8. Select “Suppress” in the drop-down under “Desired behavior” and save
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Step 1. Access Intelius.com’s Data Privacy Center. Click on ‘View public data tools’ in the Public Data Tools section.

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Step 2: Click on ‘Manage my suppression rules’ in the appearing Suppress Your Public Data box. You’ll be taken to PeopleConnect’s opt-out page.

Intelius is part of the PeopleConnect network of data brokers, which includes people-search websites such as Classmates, US Search, and Instant Checkmate. This opt-out process will remove your personal info from all of these broker sites at once.

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Step 3: Submit a valid email address, check the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy box, and hit the ‘Continue’ button.

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Step 4: Go to your email inbox, open the message from PeopleConnect, and follow the verification link.

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Step 5: Enter your date of birth and check the verification box. Then click ‘Continue’.

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Step 6: Enter your full name, check the box confirming this is your legal name, and click ‘Continue’.

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Step 7: Find a matching profile and select it. Then scroll the page all the way down and hit ‘Continue’.

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Step 8: If your identity is verified, click the ‘Continue’ button. If it isn’t, verify it via the email address or phone number that are listed in your record.

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Step 9: Select ‘Suppressed’ in the dropdown under Desired Behavior. Then click ‘Save.’

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You have completed the opt-out process. Your record should now be displayed as suppressed.

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Your data is still exposed on other brokers

Although you have completed the Intelius opt-out, there are many other people-search websites exposing your data. While removing yourself from Intelius.com takes you in the right direction, it isn’t enough to keep your data private.

We recommend that you do these five first:

Go through this list and send opt-out requests manually to each data broker, or subscribe to Onerep to remove records automatically from 214 sites with just a few clicks.

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Why remove yourself from AnyWho

Here’s why we recommend you opt out of AnyWho.com:

  • Site visits: over 400K people use AnyWho each month.(1)
  • Exposure on Google: Google has already indexed over 200K AnyWho pages making your data easier to find through its search.(2)
  • Depth of exposure: AnyWho shares such personal details as full names, age, addresses, and phone numbers.

Sources:
1 – Silmilarweb
2 – Google

Who sees your data on AnyWho

50.80% Female49.20% Male
18–24 years old
12.89%
25–34 years old
18.30%
35–44 years old
18.36%
45–54 years old
18.48%
55–64 years old
19.26%
65+ years old
12.71%

Sources: Similarweb

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