Check yourself
Find out what's out there
We don't scan anything and we never ask for your information. These are the tools that let you check for yourself, with honest notes on the limits of each.
Has my data been breached?
01Have I Been Pwned
What it reveals · every known breach containing your email address or phone number, with the data types exposed in each.
What it misses · breaches that were never disclosed or never loaded, which is many of them.
Time cost · 2 minutes, plus the sinking feeling.
02Mozilla Monitor
What it reveals · the same breach data as HIBP with ongoing alerts when new breaches include you.
What it misses · same blind spots, and the free tier stops at monitoring.
Time cost · 5 minutes to set up alerts once.
What do the people-search sites show about me?
03Search yourself, directly
What it reveals · your actual public profile on Spokeo, Whitepages, FastPeopleSearch, and the rest. Our directory links each broker's search page so you can see precisely what a stranger sees.
What it misses · nothing. This is the raw product.
Time cost · 20 minutes for the top ten sites, and plan to be unsettled.
What's in my credit file?
04AnnualCreditReport.com
What it reveals · your full file at Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion, free weekly, the only federally authorized source.
What it misses · the specialty bureaus below.
Time cost · 30 minutes to pull and read all three.
05Credit freezes at all three bureaus
What it reveals · nothing, and it prevents everything. A freeze blocks new accounts opened in your name and it's free by federal law.
What it misses · existing accounts and non-credit fraud.
Time cost · 15 minutes per bureau, once.
06Innovis
What it reveals · your file at the fourth credit bureau nobody mentions, with its own free report and freeze.
What it misses · it's a smaller file, and that's the point of checking it.
Time cost · 10 minutes.
07ChexSystems
What it reveals · your banking history file, the one banks check before letting you open an account.
What it misses · everything outside deposit accounts.
Time cost · 10 minutes for the free report.
Who's profiling me for marketing?
08OptOutPrescreen
What it reveals · nothing, and it turns off the firehose. This is the official mechanism to stop the bureaus from selling your file for preapproved credit offers.
What it misses · marketing lists built outside the bureaus.
Time cost · 5 minutes online for five years, one mailed form for permanent.
09Google Results About You
What it reveals · where your personal contact details surface in Google results, with removal requests built in.
What it misses · removal from Google hides the result, and the source page stays live.
Time cost · 10 minutes to set up monitoring.
What can I legally demand?
10California DROP
What it reveals · nothing, and it's the strongest deletion action in America. One request orders 600+ registered brokers to delete you. California residents only.
What it misses · FCRA and HIPAA-covered data, and every non-Californian.
Time cost · 15 minutes, then patience through late 2026.
11The state broker registries (California and Vermont)
What it reveals · the actual legal roster of companies admitting they broker data, including names you've never heard.
What it misses · unregistered brokers, which enforcement is still catching.
Time cost · browse ours instead. The YDYL directory is built from these registries with the action steps attached.
12DSAR templates, ours
What it reveals · whatever a broker holds on you. A right-to-know request compels a disclosure under CCPA and equivalent state laws, and our templates are pre-written for it.
What it misses · states without privacy laws, and it works one broker at a time.
Time cost · 5 minutes per request to send, 45 days to hear back, per broker.
The honest summary
Add it up. Checking is a part-time job, and checking is the easy half. Every removal above is one action against a condition that regenerates from courthouse records, data refreshes, and re-sales. Manual works if you treat it like a quarterly chore forever. The sane version is continuous, and that's what we're building with Sya, a continuous personal intelligence platform.