Data removal. Updated 2026-09-13. About 4 minutes to read.
Submit a removal for every Radaris profile that matches you at radaris.com/control-privacy, click each confirmation email, and search your name again every 90 days.
Radaris publishes free people-search profiles that often rank near the top of Google for a person's name. A profile can list your addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, employers and relatives, with background report offers wrapped around it.
Removing a Radaris profile is free and no longer needs an account. You copy your profile's web address, submit it with an email address on the Radaris privacy control page, and click the confirmation link. Radaris is also known for creating new profiles when records do not match an earlier request, so plan to check again.
Radaris gathers public records, data from other brokers, search engine results and social media, then joins them into one profile per person it believes exists. Its pages are built to be indexed by search engines, which is why a Radaris result can appear above your own social media accounts when someone searches your name.
In March 2024 KrebsOnSecurity published an investigation into who is behind Radaris. It reported that the site is operated by a company incorporated in Cyprus, and that its founders, two brothers living in Massachusetts, have been linked to a number of other people-search and background sites. Treat any related site you find as a separate opt-out.
You never have to pay Radaris to remove your own profile, and you no longer need to create an account. If a page asks for card details or pushes a premium privacy plan, you are on the wrong path.
Earlier versions of the Radaris process asked you to claim the profile with an account before you could hide it, and some people report being asked for ID. By 2026 the standard route no longer needs an account. If Radaris does ask for identification, give the minimum it needs, cover your photo and document number where you can, and never send a full copy of a passport or Social Security card.
Sites such as Homemetry and Rehold, which list the residents of an address, use a very similar privacy control page. If your address appears on them, repeat the process there.
Record each profile address and the date you removed it in the data broker opt-out tracker, then search again every 90 days. Californians can add a deletion request to every registered broker through DROP at privacy.ca.gov/drop.
Radaris is aimed at US records, although it can pick up people with US addresses, phone numbers or employers. If you have never lived or worked in the US, spend your time on the sites that matter locally. In Australia, use your Privacy Act rights to ask an organisation what it holds and to correct it, and complain to the OAIC if it ignores you. In the UK, make an erasure request under the UK GDPR and escalate to the ICO after one month. In Canada, raise a complaint with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner under PIPEDA.
Not any more. The current process uses your profile web address, an email address and a confirmation link. Older guides that tell you to register and claim the profile describe the previous process.
Radaris usually hides a profile within about 24 hours of the email confirmation. If it is still visible after a few days, submit the request again for that exact web address.
Radaris adds new records constantly. When new data is not linked to the profile you removed, it can create a new profile under your name with a different web address. Search again every 90 days and remove each new one.
It is a real data broker operating legally in the US, where publishing information drawn from public records is generally allowed. KrebsOnSecurity's 2024 investigation raised questions about who runs it and its links to other sites, which is a good reason to use an alias email and give it as little new information as possible.