Guide
How to Remove Yourself from Spokeo
Spokeo is one of the most widely recognized people-search engines, aggregating names, addresses, phone numbers, and more into public profiles. This guide covers the removal path and the practical considerations.
No service can guarantee complete removal of personal information from the internet. Opt-out paths, timelines, and relisting behavior vary by source.
What Spokeo collects
Spokeo profiles can include your full name, current and past addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, age, relatives, and in some cases social media associations. The data comes from public records, commercial data providers, and other aggregated sources.
The opt-out process
Spokeo provides an opt-out page where you paste the URL of your listing and submit a removal request. You will need to verify your identity via email. Once confirmed, Spokeo typically processes the removal within 3 to 5 business days.
Common challenges
Spokeo may have multiple listings for you under different name variations or addresses. Each listing requires a separate opt-out request. Additionally, Spokeo is known to relist information when new data enters their system, so periodic rechecking is important.
How DeleteMyTrace handles Spokeo
Spokeo is one of our production-automated sources. Our system can detect your listing through signal detection, and our cleanup workflow handles the opt-out submission and verification. We also monitor for relisting as part of our ongoing scan coverage across 8 sources.