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They are, and getting them removed is genuinely difficult. Records taken down from people-search sites are widely observed to reappear later. Whether brokers deliberately re-acquire them is a fair inference rather than something anyone has proven, so we will not claim it. California now runs a single deletion service that every registered broker has had to honour since August 2026. Canada has nothing equivalent, and Canadian law contains no general right to have your data erased. Deletion here has to be argued from consent and retention rules instead, which is slower and less certain. Nobody knows how many brokers there are; the figure of four thousand that gets quoted everywhere has no source behind it. About six hundred are registered in California and around seven hundred and fifty have been identified across all five American registries.
Start with the largest people-search sites, which all have removal forms. If you would rather not do it by hand, a subscription service will do it continuously for a bit over a hundred and seventy dollars a year in Canada.
Honestly, less than you would think. This part is already automated and cheap, and we would rather tell you which service actually covers Canada than sell you our own slower version of it. Where help is worth paying for is deciding what is worth removing, and closing the taps that keep refilling the bucket.
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Checked 4 Sep 2026 · Review by Mar 2027
A 2026 UC Irvine study of California-registered brokers found a significant minority ignoring deletion requests or demanding intrusive identification. California's Delete Act requirement that brokers re-check requests every 45 days is verified. The rate at which records reappear is not measured by anyone.
Still open: No credible figure exists for how fast records return. Do not publish one.
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