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Find and Erase What the Internet Knows About You

The exact prompt from the reel. Give Claude Code web search and your own name, and it finds the data-broker pages and old accounts exposing you, then builds a removal checklist with every opt-out link in order.
⏱ About 10 minutes

Strangers are selling your data right now. Give Claude Code web search and your own name, and it comes back with the data-broker pages, the old accounts you forgot existed, and a removal list with every opt-out link in order. It is not magic. It is search plus an agent that does not get bored. Here is the exact prompt, plus how to run it safely.

The prompt

Paste this into Claude Code (with web search enabled), filling in your details:

Search the web for everything publicly available about me. My name is [FULL NAME],
I'm in [CITY, STATE], and my email is [EMAIL]. Find three things:

1. Data-broker sites listing my info (Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, Radaris,
   and similar).
2. Old accounts, profiles, or mentions tied to my name or email.
3. Anything exposing my address, phone number, or other personal details.

For each result, give me the exact URL and what it exposes. Then build me a removal
checklist: every site, its opt-out or removal link, and the steps to take, in order.
Don't stop at the first page of results, keep going until you've been thorough.

How to run it

  1. Turn on web search in Claude Code, then paste the prompt with your real name, city, and email.
  2. Let it work. It will list the broker pages and old profiles it finds, and what each one exposes.
  3. Ask it to write the removal checklist if it has not already: every site, its opt-out link, and the order to do them in.
  4. Work down the checklist. Most brokers have a removal or opt-out form; some take a few days to drop you.

One safety rule

The results are your real personal data. Do not paste them into a public thread, a shared doc, or anywhere you would not put your home address. Keep the run local, and blur anything sensitive if you screen-record it.

Keep going

Run it every few months, new broker sites pop up constantly. When you find a good removal tool or a broker that will not drop you, note it and move on to the next one.