How to Enable Privacy in Spokeo

Protect your privacy by removing your search listings from the Spokeo Website.

There are numerous sites on the Internet that gather and store your personal information. This information comes from a variety of sources including public records, social media sites, such as Facebook and other online services. Spokeo is a service that scours the Internet looking for publicly available information. The information gathered is stored in a database that anyone can access from the Spokeo page. If you don't want your personal information to be available, you must request that Spokeo remove the public listing. Since Spokeo takes its information from other websites, you'll also need to either delete the data from these sites, or change their privacy settings so Spokeo no longer has access.

Instructions

1. Open your Web browser, and navigate to the Spokeo homepage.

2. Click the link that corresponds to the type of search you want to perform, and enter the data into the search box. For example, to search for your telephone number, click the "Phone" link above the search box, and enter your phone number into the box. Click the green icon on the left side of the search box to begin.

3. Locate the listings that contains your information. Depending on the type of search you perform, there may be more than one. For example, a name search may return hits for several of your previous addresses.

4. Copy the URL of the listing you want to make private, and navigate to the Spokeo privacy page.

5. Scroll down the page to the "Removing Your Listing from Spokeo" section, and paste the listing's URL into the URL box.

6. Enter a confirmation email address. You will need to click the link in the message that Spokeo sends you to complete the process so make sure it's a valid address.

7. Enter the verification code into the final box, and click the "Remove This Listing" icon at the bottom of the page.

8. Open the confirmation email, and click the link. If the link doesn't work, copy the verification URL contained in the message and paste it into your Web browser. This will take you to a page confirming the listing has been removed.

9. Repeat the removal process for each additional listing you found.

Tips & Warnings

• It make take a while for the listing to be removed from the search results.

• Listings might reappear on Spokeo if you don't change the privacy settings on the accounts from which the information was gathered.

References

• Spokeo: Privacy FAQs

Resources

• Spokeo Privacy Page