About Ghost Delete
Ghost Delete removes your personal information from data brokers and people-search sites, and shows you the proof. It is available in the United States and Canada.
What is the Site All About?
Ghost Delete is a data broker removal service for the United States and Canada. Data brokers and people-search sites collect your name, home address, phone number, email address, and relatives, and sell access to it. Ghost Delete files removal requests with those brokers for you, checks whether the listings actually came down, and refiles when they come back.
It starts with a free breach scan. Enter an email address and the scan checks it against known data breaches, instantly, on screen.
Every confirmed removal carries screenshot proof on your dashboard. If a broker refuses, or a listing comes back, the dashboard says that too. A weekly exposure report shows your current exposure and what changed that week.
More is coming. Be a Ghost, our free browser extension that blocks ads and trackers, is coming soon. A Ghost Delete VPN is in the works. The Public Search Opt-Out, a small standalone subscription that hides your email address from public search results here, is coming soon too.
Why Build the Site?
Your personal information is collected and sold by data brokers and people-search sites without any meaningful say from you, the person it describes. You never signed up. Nobody asked. The listings exist because your data is worth money to someone else.
You can opt out yourself, and our DIY removal guide shows how. But doing it yourself is deliberately slow and repetitive: every broker has its own buried form, its own confirmation email, and its own waiting period, and listings come back because brokers keep buying fresh data. A 2024 study by Consumer Reports and Tall Poppy found that manual opt-outs removed about 70 percent of participants' records over four months, more than the paid services in the study managed, but only for people willing to do every broker themselves, one at a time.
Privacy should not be a luxury good, and it should not be a part-time job. Ghost Delete exists to do the repetitive work for one fair price, and to prove it happened.
Who, What & Why
Ghost Delete is owned by Aro Labs Inc., a Canadian company, federally incorporated in Canada. It is run by Quinn Wren, CEO of Ghost Delete.
Ghost Delete was founded by Scott Kauppinen, who lives in Vancouver, Canada. He did not set out to start a privacy company. He searched his own name. What he found was his home address, his phone number, his email, and his relatives, listed on websites he had never visited, run by companies he had never heard of. The listings were for sale. Anyone could buy them. He had never agreed to any of it, and nobody had ever asked him.
He tried to remove himself. Each broker had its own opt-out process, buried in a different corner of a different website, with its own form, its own confirmation email, and its own waiting period. Some wanted a phone call. Some ignored the request entirely. He worked through the biggest ones and got most of them down, and then they started coming back, because brokers buy fresh data constantly.
He looked at the services that do this for a living. They worked, after a fashion, but they had two problems he could not get past. The first was price: DeleteMe charges $129 a year and Aura charges $144 a year, at the prices they published in November 2026. The second was proof. The services told you removals happened and showed you a dashboard status. They did not show you the evidence. In that same 2024 Consumer Reports and Tall Poppy study, paid removal services removed about 35 percent of participants' records on average over four months.
So he decided to build the version he wanted to buy. Cheaper, at $9.99 CAD a month or $79 CAD a year in Canada, and $6.99 USD a month or $55 USD a year in the United States. Proof-first, because a removal that cannot be shown is not a removal, it is a claim: if there is no proof, the dashboard does not say it happened. And Canada covered from day one, with PIPEDA-style requests for Canadian brokers filed alongside CCPA-style requests for US ones, in the same subscription.
Scott built Ghost Delete because he searched his own name and did not like what he found. He is building it for everyone who has done the same search and had the same reaction.