Hard to Find

A complete, free course in finding out what the internet holds about you — and taking it down yourself.

Everything in this series can be done by you, for free, without us. It is real work — that's honest — and every step is here anyway. If you'd rather not spend the hours, that's what we're for. Either way, you should know exactly what's out there.

The method is four words: audit, remove, lock, keep watch. Find what's exposed, take down what's private, stop feeding the sources, and re-check — because removals often don't stick, and the sites that rebuild from fresh data are counting on you not noticing.

One thing this series will not promise: "delete yourself from the internet." Nobody can, and a promise to do it is describing a feeling, not a result. The goal here is better and it is achievable: reachable by the people who should reach you, and hard to find for everyone else.

The chapters

  1. What you filed — Companies House and the public registers
  2. The register that gets sold — the open electoral register

More chapters are being written; each appears here as it ships.


Start where the series starts: run the free scan and see what a stranger can find. The scan takes under a minute, no account. See what's exposed.

Coverage