DeleteMe is a paid service that sends removal requests to data brokers and people-search sites on your behalf. Abine, Inc., a company in Boston, has run DeleteMe since 2010. The Standard plan for one person costs $129 a year.

DeleteMe is built mainly for the US. The pricing page sells personal plans for the US, Canada, Australia and the UK, and DeleteMe’s help center lists six EU countries, Brazil and Singapore as supported without a public price, but its EU coverage is a few dozen sites, mostly business directories.

In a 2024 Consumer Reports test, DeleteMe removed 27% of the profiles on 13 people-search sites within four months, while manual opt-outs removed 70%. Like any service of this kind, it does not touch data leaked in breaches, government records or search results, and it cannot reach brokers that are not on its list.

Removal Effectiveness

DeleteMe’s public list says it removes data from 969 sites. That number counts every plan: on the same list, 562 entries are sites handled only through custom requests, 161 belong to international plans and 145 only to the VIP business plan. The help center lists the sites covered by the Standard US plan, and there are 97 of them, among them Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified and MyLife. The number of brokers covered is DeleteMe’s own.

The Standard plan scans those sites four times a year. A profile that a broker publishes again after removal, called re-listing, can stay up for up to three months, until the next scan. The Premium plan scans six times a year and adds 15 sites. Standard members can also send up to 40 custom requests on the plan: you paste the address of a page with your data, and a privacy advisor files the opt-out request by hand.

DeleteMe names the brokers it cannot fully handle. PeopleConnect, the company behind Intelius, TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate, does not accept opt-out requests sent by DeleteMe, even with a signed authorization form, so you have to opt out of those sites yourself. On Radaris, DeleteMe can usually remove the main profile, but the extra entries need a code sent to your own phone.

Consumer Reports tested DeleteMe from May to September 2023 with four volunteers and 13 people-search sites. DeleteMe removed 13% of the profiles within a week, 20% within a month and 27% within four months; Consumer Reports put it in the middle of the seven services it tested. The volunteers gave only their name, current address and date of birth and did not answer the service’s follow-up questions, and Consumer Reports notes that providing more information, such as previous addresses, might have produced better results. Consumer Reports calls its sample too small to be statistically significant.

Privacy & Data Handling

To start, DeleteMe asks for your full name, date of birth, current and past addresses, phone number and email address. You can add up to six names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses. Relatives and employer are optional, and the data you hand over is the same kind of data the brokers sell. For some brokers DeleteMe asks you to sign an optional authorization form, a limited power of attorney.

DeleteMe’s privacy policy says the data you enter for removal goes to data brokers only to request removal, is not shared for any other reason and is stored only in the US. The rest of your account data is treated differently: DeleteMe uses your contact details for its own marketing, with an opt-out, and may share account data with corporate affiliates and business partners. If the company is merged or sold, customer data can be transferred to the buyer.

Abine is a US company registered in Delaware, and the policy states that as of May 2025 it had never received a National Security Letter or a FISA order. Abine raised a $5.2 million Series A from Atlas Venture and General Catalyst in 2011.

DeleteMe says it has passed a SOC 2 Type II audit every year since 2021 and holds ISO 27001:2022 certification. It does not name the auditor, and the 2026 SOC 2 report and penetration test are available only on request.

No breach of DeleteMe customer data has been reported.

The 2018 Blur exposure

Abine, the company that runs DeleteMe, also made Blur, a password manager. In December 2018 a security researcher reported a misconfigured Amazon S3 storage bucket that had exposed data of about 2.4 million Blur users: email addresses, some names, IP addresses and encrypted Blur account passwords. Abine secured the bucket and said there was no evidence that passwords saved in the manager or payment details were exposed. DeleteMe customer data was not part of it, which is why DeleteMe has no data breach on its record.

Transparency & Verifiability

DeleteMe publishes two site lists: the full list with marks for each plan, and the shorter Standard US list in the help center. It also publishes a sample privacy report.

The proof of removal is a status for each site, such as “removal in progress” or “removed”, plus the approximate removal time and the kinds of personal data found. DeleteMe says a privacy advisor checks that a listing is gone before marking it removed, but the report contains no screenshots of the listings before or after.

Consumer Reports’ 2024 test is the only independent verification of DeleteMe’s results. A peer-reviewed 2025 study of data removal services counted 759 distinct sites on DeleteMe’s published list but did not test its removals. In 2026 Consumer Reports transferred its Permission Slip privacy app to DeleteMe; the test was run in 2023, before that deal.

Usability & Support

After sign-up you fill in a profile with your details, and DeleteMe says the first report arrives within seven days. DeleteMe combines automated scans with people (removal method): scans find matches, and privacy advisors send opt-outs and handle custom requests. The dashboard sometimes asks whether a found address or relative is yours; answering lets DeleteMe search further.

Support is available by email, chat and phone, and the account supports two-factor authentication. Plans cover one person, two people or a family of four, and DeleteMe sells separate plans for businesses.

The free scan asks for your email, name and other details and removes nothing.

Price & Value

DeleteMe is sold on its own, not as part of a bundle, and has no free plan. The Standard plan costs $129 a year ($10.75 a month) or $209 for two years ($8.71 a month); Premium costs $180 a year. A plan for two people costs $229 a year and a family plan for four costs $329 a year, both discounted from the full prices of $258 and $516. Plans renew automatically, and the checkout terms allow renewal at the current or the full retail rate, which matters for those two discounted plans.

DeleteMe refunds the full price if you cancel before your first report is complete and gives a pro-rated refund after that.

At $129 a year the Standard plan buys 97 sites and four scans a year, and the one independent test measured 27% removed.

Pros and Cons

Privacy advisors file opt-outs and up to 40 custom requests on the Standard plan
Publishes its full site list, the Standard US list and a sample report
The privacy policy limits the data you enter for removal to removal requests and keeps it in the US
Names the brokers it cannot handle, such as Intelius and TruthFinder, and explains how to opt out yourself
Support by email, chat and phone, with plans for two people and families
Full refund before the first report and a pro-rated refund after it

Removed 27% of profiles within four months in the 2024 Consumer Reports test, against 70% for manual opt-outs
The Standard plan covers 97 sites, far fewer than the 969 on the public list
Rescans the Standard plan's sites four times a year, so a re-listed profile can stay up for months
Reports show a status per site, with no screenshots
Contact details are used for marketing, and customer data can pass to a buyer of the company
The two-person and family plans are discounted, and renewal can be charged at the full retail rate
Personal plans with a public price exist only for the US, Canada, Australia and the UK

Our Rating

Removal Effectiveness5.5/10
In the Consumer Reports test, DeleteMe removed 27% of profiles from 13 people-search sites within four months. The Standard plan covers 97 sites and rescans them four times a year.
Privacy & Data Handling6.5/10
DeleteMe needs your name, date of birth, addresses, phone number and email, and its policy limits that data to removal requests. Contact details are used for marketing, and customer data can pass to a buyer of the company.
Transparency & Verifiability6.0/10
DeleteMe publishes its site lists and a sample report, and one independent test covers it. Reports show a status for each site, without screenshots.
Usability & Support7.5/10
Privacy advisors handle the opt-outs and custom requests, with support by email, chat and phone. A few large broker networks still need you to opt out yourself.
Price & Value5.5/10
The Standard plan costs $129 a year for 97 sites and a 27% result in the only independent test. The two-person and family plans are sold at a discount, and their renewal can be charged at the full retail rate.

Overall6.1/10

Removal Effectiveness 30% · Privacy & Data Handling 25% · Transparency & Verifiability 20% · Usability & Support 15% · Price & Value 10%

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