AnyWho opt-out
spokeo.com How to remove yourself from AnyWho
California's data broker registry lists AnyWho.com as a Spokeo, Inc. site, and gives Spokeo's privacy pages as the place to exercise your rights. Start at Spokeo's privacy controls page, not the older PeopleConnect suppression center.
On average, Serus sends about 184 removal requests per person, 89% of them to data brokers, so expect AnyWho to be one of many.
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Serus is a privacy company with paid tools to find and remove your personal data. This guide shows the free way to do it yourself.
- Opt-out page
- spokeo.com
- Method
- Online form
- Time to remove
- About 40 days
- Cost
- Free
- Phone
- (626) 396-9499
- Mailing address
- 199 S. Los Robles Ave Ste 711, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
- Opt-out requests (2024)
- Complied with 100% of 3.8 million, median 1 day
- Deletion requests (2024)
- Complied with 100% of 8 (all in part), median 1 day
- Says it collects
- Government ID numbers
- Says it sold or shared data with
- The federal government, other state governments, law enforcement (without a subpoena or court order)
- Regulated by
- GLBA
- Last updated
Phone, address, request figures and data practices: as AnyWho reported them to the California data broker registry for 2024.
How to opt out of AnyWho
- 1
Find your AnyWho listing
Search your name on anywho.com and note what the listing shows, so you can match it later.
- 2
Open Spokeo's privacy controls
Spokeo, Inc.'s California registry filing lists anywho.com among its sites and points to spokeo.com/privacy/control/all-categories and its privacy policy for exercising your rights.
- 3
Submit your request
Complete the request on that page for your listing. Spokeo's own listing opt-out form is at spokeo.com/optout.
- 4
Check the listing
Search AnyWho again after a few days. If your listing is still there, repeat the request.
Watch out for
- AnyWho shares an operator with Spokeo's other sites, and one request may not cover all of them. Search each one.
- Older guides say AnyWho is run by PeopleConnect and send you to its suppression center. The California registry names Spokeo, Inc. as the operator.
Sources checked: cppa.ca.gov, spokeo.com, anywho.com
Last verified against the official page:
Who runs AnyWho
AnyWho is run by Spokeo. The same company also registers Freepeopledirectory.com, Thatsthem.com, Peoplewin.com, Family.me.
Our guides for its other sites: Free People Directory, PeopleWin, Spokeo, ThatsThem
Source: California data broker registry
What AnyWho holds about you
- Full name and aliases
- Current address
- Phone numbers
- Relatives
- Age and date of birth
What AnyWho is known to collect, not a check of your listing.
Sister sites
These are run by the same company. Removing yourself from AnyWho doesn't remove you from them, so check each one.
Does it come back?
Spokeo doesn't publish a relisting policy on its registry pages. Search yourself again every few months.
Your rights
Spokeo, Inc. is on the California data broker registry, with AnyWho.com listed under its DBAs.
California: CCPA. If you live in California, the CCPA lets you ask a business to delete the personal information it holds about you and to stop selling or sharing it. Businesses generally have 45 days to respond.
California: the Delete Act. Data brokers that hold information on Californians must register with the state. California residents can use DROP, the state's Delete Request and Opt-out Platform, to send one deletion request to every registered broker at once.
Other US states. Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Texas, Oregon and a growing list of other states give residents a similar right to delete. Vermont, Texas and Oregon also make data brokers register with the state. Where no state law applies, the broker's own opt-out above still works for most people.
General information, not legal advice.
Frequently asked
Who runs AnyWho?
California's data broker registry lists Anywho.com as one of the sites of Spokeo, Inc.
Does removing myself from Spokeo remove me from AnyWho?
The registry lists them under one company, but it doesn't say one request covers both. Check each site after you submit.
Is the AnyWho opt-out free?
AnyWho and Spokeo don't state a fee on their registry privacy pages, which point to self-service tools.
Related guide How to delete yourself and your information from the internet 
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