TraceKill
Find where your personal data is being sold, then get it taken down
Inside the project
01 / 03Live TraceKill capture showing the public exposure scan and case-file visual.
The brief
The problem
Data brokers publish and sell home addresses, phone numbers and relatives' names. Getting off them by hand means finding every listing, working through each site's own opt-out process, and starting over when the listing reappears a few months later. Most people give up before the first round is done.
Our approach
We built TraceKill to do the tedious part. A free public scan shows where someone appears. Removal requests are filed and tracked, and each listing's status stays visible. Scheduled re-checks catch listings that return and queue them for removal again.
Features
What it does
- 01
Start with the exposure
The public scan gives people an entry point into a difficult privacy problem: finding where their information appears on broker sites. The interface turns the discovery step into a focused case file.
- 02
Make progress visible
Removal requests and their current status belong in the same workflow. Live status surfaces help people follow what has been requested and what still needs attention.
- 03
Keep checking after the first removal
Personal data can reappear. Background queues and scheduled checks support follow-up work, so the product is designed around ongoing monitoring as well as the initial scan.
Results
What happened
Live at tracekill.com with a free public exposure scan
Covers hundreds of data-broker sources
Every removal request tracked with a visible status
Scheduled re-checks catch listings that reappear
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