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How to opt out of Nuwber

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 Nuwber collects

  • Full name and aliases
  • Current and prior addresses
  • Phone numbers (cell and landline)
  • Age and date of birth
  • Relatives and known associates
  • Email addresses
  • Employment history (partial)
  • Social media profile links

How to opt out yourself

Direct opt-out: https://nuwber.com/removal/link

  1. Search your name on nuwber.com and open the listing that is actually you.
  2. Copy the listing URL from your browser's address bar.
  3. Go to nuwber.com/removal/link and paste the URL into the removal form.
  4. Enter an email address so Nuwber can verify the request.
  5. Open the verification email and click the confirmation link.
  6. Nuwber says removal can take up to 48 hours. Recheck the listing URL afterward; a removed page returns a 410 error.

What Nuwber knows about you

Nuwber runs a free search that shows your name, age, current city, and a list of relatives right on the results page, before any paywall. Click through and you reach the paid report: full address history, phone numbers, email addresses, and links to your social media profiles.

Nuwber also runs a reverse phone lookup on the same data. A caller does not need your name. A phone number alone can pull your address and the people connected to it.

Why it matters if you're on the job

Most people-search sites hide everything behind a paywall. Nuwber shows your city and your relatives' names for free. That is enough for someone to run a quick check on you before deciding whether to dig further.

The relatives list is the real risk. Your spouse, your parents, and your adult children appear on your listing whether or not they have ever searched their own name. Someone building a file on you gets a family tree in one click, and each of those names ties back to a home address.

How to opt out

Find your listing, copy its URL, paste it into Nuwber's removal form at nuwber.com/removal/link, and confirm by email. Nuwber says removal can take up to 48 hours. The removal URL was live when we checked it on 2026-07-11. If it stops loading, search "Nuwber opt out" and use the "Remove My Info" link in Nuwber's site footer.

One catch: Nuwber sometimes lists the same person under more than one entry, with a variant name spelling or an old address. Each removal clears only the listing you submit. Search again after your first removal goes through to catch duplicates. The full step list is above.

How long until you're back

Nuwber rebuilds listings from the same public-record and marketing-data suppliers on a rolling basis. A new address, a new phone number, or a relative's updated record can put you back on the site. Plan on checking again rather than treating one removal as final.

What we do that's faster

We submit the removal, confirm the email link, and keep re-checking Nuwber for you. On our Household Pro plan we do the same for everyone in your household who shares your address. When a duplicate listing shows up under a variant spelling, we file that one too. We run the same process across the broker sites we monitor, so you are not repeating this by hand. We handle most of the work and tell you when a site needs something from you.

Officers and their families on a Frontline Privacy Personal or Household Pro plan get this handled. To see what Nuwber and other brokers currently show, run a free scan.

Who owns it

Nuwber, Inc.

Founded in 2015 by Dimitri Shelest, who also founded the data-removal service Onerep. Krebs on Security reported in 2024 that Shelest kept an ownership stake in Nuwber; he stated Nuwber and Onerep do not share data. The Better Business Bureau lists Nuwber, Inc. at an Alexandria, Virginia address.

Where the data comes from

  • Public records aggregatorsCourt records, property records, and voter files bought from third-party data suppliers.
  • Phone directoriesLandline and wireless carrier data used for reverse phone lookups.
  • Social media scrapingPublicly visible profile links pulled from major platforms.
  • Marketing and consumer databases

Doing this for one broker is straightforward. Doing it for 200, on a continuous basis, is what we do.

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