written by a former data broker
Not a leak. Not a listening phone. A functioning market that trades your name, email, and phone number legally, in milliseconds, on the strength of one sentence you didn't read.
I spent years inside it. These are the answers I'd give a friend.
no signup · no search box · we don't look anyone up, and we never will
no lookup
Sites that offer to "check if your data was exposed" can't see the whole market, so a clean result means nothing. A false all-clear is worse than silence. We'd rather explain the machine than run a slot machine.
no email wall
It would be absurd to collect your contact information on a site about how your contact information gets collected. Read everything, give nothing.
one bias
Stated up front: this site is funded by PRYVC, which I founded to fix what I'm describing. The explanations stand on their own.
the questions everyone asks
Your phone rang before you closed the tab. That's not a coincidence, and it's not your phone listening. You were auctioned.
Read the answer →It wasn't stolen. It was sold, legally, by a company you handed it to. Here's how to figure out which one.
Read the answer →It's the most consequential sentence on most websites, and it means almost nothing. I know, because I was one of the trusted partners.
Read the answer →Two invisible services recorded your session to prove you consented. The evidence is excellent, you'll never see it, and as of December 2025 both belong to the same company.
Read the answer →Six channels supply every telemarketer who calls you. One of them explains the calls on the number you swear you never gave anyone.
Read the answer →You think you're messaging one company. You're publishing a classified ad about yourself to a room full of buyers.
Read the answer →the receipt
Most people picture a name and an email in a spreadsheet. A real lead record carries the page you were on, the second you submitted, your IP address, your device, the ad that brought you, and a certificate proving you agreed. Here's the whole thing, field by field.
Open the file →// one row, one person, one submission
first_name …
phone …
email …
page_url quotes.example.com/auto/step-2
submitted_at 2026-03-14T18:22:07Z
ip_address ···.···.93.86
consent_cert TF-··········
sold_to [ 4 buyers ]
// resold as aged inventory 61 days later
what you can do about it
PRYVC is a free profile that fills any form in one click, keeps a receipt of exactly what you shared and what the site's fine print said that day, re-checks those policies every day, and gives you a revoke button with a formal cease-contact notice behind it.
free forever for individuals · no data selling · every claim independently verifiable