Take back your privacy

What it is

Data brokers collect names, addresses, phone numbers, relatives and device IDs, then sell or publish them. Privacy law gives you the right to make them stop: GDPR Article 17 in the EU, UK and EEA, and the CCPA / CPRA in California. A removal request is just a short, correctly worded email, but there are hundreds of brokers and each one wants it sent to a different address or form, and again every few months.

Eraser keeps the broker list, writes the request in the right legal wording for where you live, sends it through your own SMTP or mail account, and tracks each reply over IMAP. Everything stays in a local SQLite file and config on your machine. There is no account, no server of ours in the loop and no telemetry; this website counts visits and nothing else (see the privacy page).

How it compares

Paid services such as Incogni and DeleteMe do the same job for $100+ a year and hold your identity details on their servers. Eraser is MIT-licensed, free, and the broker list and request letters are in the open source repository, so you can check exactly what gets sent and to whom. The trade-off: it runs on your computer, and you stay in charge of the mailbox it sends from.

The broker directory has step-by-step opt-out guides for the biggest people-search, background-check and credit brokers, and works without installing anything.