Free privacy checkup · for adults 40 to 60 and their parents
How easy is your family to find?
Nine quick questions about spam calls and people-search sites. You get an exposure score and a short plan, free steps first.
A self-check from your answers, not a scan of the internet. Your answers stay in your browser.
Your result
A rough guide from your answers, not a measurement.
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What a stranger sees
Could a stranger find where your mom lives?
On people-search sites, a name and a city are often enough to pull up a home address, a phone number and the names of relatives. Here's how to check, how to remove it for free, and what has worked for us.
See what stopped our spam calls Free removal guideMargaret Example Age 68 · Anytown
Our own numbers, checked October 20, 2026
What our Cloaked account shows.
of calls to our phone in the last 30 days were spam. 62 of 77 calls, per Cloaked Call Guard. Overall, Cloaked's dashboard shows 942 spam calls blocked.
exposures secured, as Cloaked reports it in our account.
What those exposures were
Our own results. Yours depend on how much of your information is out there. Full write-up with screenshots.
How they find you
Your details travel further than you think.
Data brokers
Collect your address, phone and relatives from public records and purchases.
People-search sites
Sell it back as a searchable profile, often for a few dollars.
Your phone
Scam calls and texts that know your name, street and family.

Why it matters
Scams sound real when they know your details.
The more of your information is listed, the easier it is for a scammer to name your street or a family member and sound convincing. Removing listings takes away one easy source.
On our own phone, Cloaked's Call Guard marked 62 of 77 calls as spam in 30 days, and its dashboard shows 942 spam calls blocked in total. Typical examples are fake package-delivery texts, unpaid-toll texts and callers who already know a family member's name.
See how we set it upHow to fix it
Three steps. The first two are free.
Search yourself
Look up each family member on the 13 biggest people-search sites.
Opt out for free
Each site has a removal form. Our guide links to every one.
Or hand it off
A paid service sends the requests and rechecks for you.
What the latest research says
Removal services work. None of them catch everything.
of records cleared by the best service in a 2025 university study of four paid removal services.
cleared on average across all four. Results varied a lot by service.
Data brokers re-list people, so removal is a subscription job, not a one-time fix.
Source: He et al., "Measuring the Accuracy and Effectiveness of PII Removal Services", Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2025 (Northwestern University, Imperial College London, Brave). Services tested: Incogni, Optery, Kanary and Mozilla Monitor. Cloaked hasn't been independently tested yet, so we show our own account instead. Full comparison.
