How to Completely Remove Your Information from Spokeo
Do you often wonder how much of your personal information is exposed online? Well, Spokeo is one of the many people search engines that collects and provides personal data including phone numbers, addresses, and even criminal records. Even though this data is often publicly available, you still have the right to keep your information private.
In this article, we’ll discuss how you can remove your personal information from Spokeo’s website completely.
1. Start with a Spokeo search
The first step to removing your information from Spokeo is to find out what information Spokeo has on you. To do that, perform a Spokeo search by entering your name and other relevant details. Once you’ve found your profile, copy the URL of the page because you’ll need this to proceed further.
2. Understand Spokeo’s opt-out policy
Spokeo provides an opt-out policy that allows you to remove your information from their website. But it’s essential to understand that Spokeo is an aggregator site, meaning they pull data from various public sources. So, even after you opt-out of Spokeo, you’ll need to take several steps to have the information removed from the original source websites.
3. use Spokeo’s opt-out feature
Once you have the URL of your Spokeo profile, you can use Spokeo’s opt-out feature. Open Spokeo’s opt-out page and paste the URL of your profile in the provided form. Enter your valid email address and complete the Captcha verification.
4. Verify your email address
After submitting the opt-out request, Spokeo will send a confirmation email to the address you provided. Open the email and click on the confirmation link to verify your email address.
5. Wait for Spokeo to process your request
Spokeo’s opt-out request processing time can take up to 72 hours. After 72 hours, go back to Spokeo’s website, and perform another search to see if your profile has been removed.
6. Repeat the opt-out process for other aggregators
If your personal information is listed on several data aggregator sites besides Spokeo, you’ll have to follow the opt-out process for each of them separately.
Conclusion
While it’s impossible to entirely remove your personal information from the internet, removing it from large data aggregator sites such as Spokeo greatly reduces your online exposure. By following the above steps, you’ll be able to remove your personal information from Spokeo’s website. It’s also important to stay vigilant, and regularly check for new entries on data aggregator sites to ensure your information is kept private.
