50. Scrub your info off data-broker sites
📣 Real-user report — shared publicly by a Muse user, not independently verified.
The job: A software engineer asked Muse to find data-broker and people-search sites listing his phone number, email, and home address, then file opt-out requests on each one. His pitch: it worked well and costs nothing, versus a paid privacy service that charges a monthly subscription for the same job.
Search data-broker and people-search sites for listings with my phone number, email, and home address. File an opt-out or removal request on every site that lists me. Show me the matches first, ask before sharing any extra personal details, and track which requests were submitted, confirmed, or need follow-up. Tell me if any site blocks you.
What Muse will do:
- Give Muse the name, email, phone, and address to search with
- Have it find every broker and people-search site listing you
- Review the matches before anything gets submitted
- Let it file the opt-out requests, asking before it shares extra details
- Keep the submitted/confirmed/follow-up list and re-check in a month
Why it works: every broker has its own removal form, its own confirmation email, its own follow-up — doing it by hand is a project you abandon at site four. An agent doesn't get bored. Honest caveat from the replies: some broker sites block the agent, so expect partial coverage, not a clean sweep.
Reported by @franklin.py on Threads · Sep 2026
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