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MyLife

A people searchsite that exposes your name, address, phone, and relatives. Here's what they collect, how to opt out, and why it matters if you're on the job.

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What MyLife collects

  • Full name and aliases
  • Current and prior addresses
  • Phone numbers
  • Approximate age and date of birth
  • Relatives and household members
  • Email addresses
  • A 'Reputation Score' assembled from public-record signals
  • Hints of court records, bankruptcies, lawsuits

How to opt out yourself

Direct opt-out: https://www.mylife.com/privacyrequest

  1. Search your name on mylife.com and copy your profile URL. Do not open the profile page.
  2. Go to https://www.mylife.com/privacyrequest in a private window.
  3. Paste your profile URL and enter your name, city, state, zip, and email.
  4. Complete the CAPTCHA and submit the form.
  5. Open the verification email from MyLife and click the confirmation link. The request is not active until you do.
  6. Allow up to two weeks or longer, then search your name again to confirm the listing is gone. MyLife is slower than most brokers.
  7. Confirm the current request URL on mylife.com before you start. MyLife has moved this page before, and an old link may return a 404.

What MyLife knows about you

MyLife collects the same core data as other people-search sites: your name, current and past addresses, phone numbers, relatives, and age. It packages that data around a "Reputation Score," a number it assigns to your name that hints at criminal history, lawsuits, or bankruptcies. Then it asks you to pay to "manage" the score. The score is built from thin public-record signals, not a real background check.

The free preview is built to alarm. It flashes teasers like "we found arrest records" or "we found lawsuits" whether or not the underlying report contains any. The paid report upsells deeper background. The data comes from public records, court aggregators, and commercial broker feeds, the same sources most people-search sites use.

Why it matters if you're on the job

MyLife profiles often rank high in search results for a person's name. So the page showing your home address also shows manufactured warning flags about you to anyone who searches.

That is two problems on one page. Your address is searchable, and it is the same address where your family lives. A stranger reading the page also sees a suggestion that you have something to hide, in a format that looks authoritative even when nothing on it is confirmed.

The FTC and the Department of Justice documented this pattern. In December 2021, a federal court ordered MyLife and its CEO to stop it (see below). The teasers can still shape what a neighbor, a defendant, or anyone running your name walks away believing.

How to opt out

MyLife's opt-out works, but it runs slower than most. The request path is open to everyone, not only California residents. Steps are in the optOutSteps field above.

Expect subscription-pitch emails after you submit. They are marketing spam from MyLife's pipeline, not a sign the request failed. Block the sender if it bothers you.

Confirm the current request URL on mylife.com before you start. MyLife has moved this page before, and an old link may return a 404.

How long until you're back

Plan on roughly six months. MyLife rebuilds from public records and broker feeds, and the Reputation Score template repopulates quickly. A new court entry, even a routine traffic matter, can rebuild the listing within a few months.

What we do that's faster

We file the deletion request, click the verification email or take the verification step when MyLife requires it, and keep checking for your listing to come back. When it reappears, we file again. We run the same process across the other broker sites we cover. If you would rather not repeat this every few months yourself, we can handle MyLife and the rest for you.

Who owns it

MyLife.com, Inc.

Independent. CEO is Jeffrey Tinsley, who founded the company in 2002 as Reunion.com, a social-networking site, then pivoted it to background reports and 'reputation management.' Headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Lawsuits

FTC actions

  • FTC + DOJ joint settlement$21M consumer redress; $5M judgment against CEO Jeffrey Tinsley; MyLife's $16M judgment partially suspended
    2021

    Deceptive negative-option marketing, misleading teaser background reports, and unauthorized subscription enrollment. The order permanently banned MyLife from negative-option marketing and required clear cancellation mechanisms. Tinsley was named personally.

Where the data comes from

  • Public records
  • User-contributed dataHoldover from Reunion.com's social-network days; users sometimes upload data that ends up in profiles.
  • Social media
  • Court records

Named in incidents

ToS history

  • 2021

    Per the FTC/DOJ order: banned from deceptive negative-option marketing; required to provide simple cancellation mechanisms; required disclosure on report content.

    Source

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