Show HN: Optery – See the private info data brokers are posting about you online

Hi HN,

After many years working at data brokers such as BlueKai, Lusha, and Oracle Data Cloud, we've spent the last few months building a tool that provides granular visibility into the private information posted about you online by people search sites like TruthFinder, MyLife, Radaris, CellRevealer, Spokeo, WhitePages, etc.

After sign up, we provide deep links to your profile at over 100 of these sites, as well as an Exposure Report with screenshots so you can see exactly what these sites are posting about you. There are typically 40 - 60 matches for each user that signs up.

The top comment in another data privacy Show HN shared recently illustrates the gap our tool fills: "Does it take into account whether or not a given data broker currently has my data? Since the deletion requests contain my personal info (for some, a fair amount of it), I'd rather not have that sent to 500 brokers if only 10 or 20 of them actually have me in their database." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27146828)

Full disclosure, signing up is free and provides the visibility into what data brokers are posting about you described above, but we also have paid subscription tiers where we submit and manage the opt outs and removals.

If you want to skip the overview content, you can go straight to the signup here: https://app.optery.com/signup

(We only support U.S. residents at this time.)

It's incredible how many companies exist solely to collect (and sell?) personal data. I was ignorant to just how wide spread bits of my data were until I fired up Optery. It was sorta shocking to see all the results.

USA only. Not particularly clear. Seems cool though.

I don't understand why I need to upgrade from Core to Extended to find out if Ultimate is right for me?

That's a great question. This is our first time sharing publicly, and this is great feedback that we might we need to change that.

The intention is to tier the paid version of the product in terms of price and value, but that may not be the best place to do it.

That said, as soon as you receive your Exposure Report by email (typically within ~24 hours), it will include screen shots for the data brokers covered by the Ultimate plan, so you will have some visibility there for help deciding.