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Best data removal services of 2025
Updated Wed, Nov 19 2025
By Evan Zimmer, CNBC Select Staff
Our data is for sale — everything from our addresses and Social Security numbers to our browsing histories and employment records. Data brokers sell our personal details to other companies for marketing, credit reporting, debt collection and other purposes, including training large language models.
Your information can also fall into the hands of cybercriminals, who use it to commit identity theft.
Data removal services advertise that they can shrink your digital footprint by getting data brokers and people-search sites to delete your personal identifying information (PII). You can send data removal requests yourself, but sites like DeleteMe and Incogni are faster, more thorough and have more resources.
We’ve reviewed more than a dozen leading data removal services to find the best in a variety of categories, from price to comprehensiveness.
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Specific information with hotlinks here:
https://www.cnbc.com/select/best-data-removal-services/
By Evan Zimmer, CNBC Select Staff
Our data is for sale — everything from our addresses and Social Security numbers to our browsing histories and employment records. Data brokers sell our personal details to other companies for marketing, credit reporting, debt collection and other purposes, including training large language models.
Your information can also fall into the hands of cybercriminals, who use it to commit identity theft.
Data removal services advertise that they can shrink your digital footprint by getting data brokers and people-search sites to delete your personal identifying information (PII). You can send data removal requests yourself, but sites like DeleteMe and Incogni are faster, more thorough and have more resources.
We’ve reviewed more than a dozen leading data removal services to find the best in a variety of categories, from price to comprehensiveness.
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Specific information with hotlinks here:
https://www.cnbc.com/select/best-data-removal-services/
Disclosure from the source:
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https://www.cnbc.com/select/disclosures/
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