Our method — checked 30 August 2026
We send less, on purpose
To make a company delete you, you have to tell it who you are. So the question that matters is not how many companies a service will write to. It is how much of you it hands over to reach them, and whether it writes to companies that were never holding anything in the first place.
This page is how BLACKEYES answers that. It is about restraint, not volume.
A removal request is a disclosure
To ask a company to delete you, you have to tell it who you are. That is unavoidable — but it means every request you send is also a small act of exposure. A service that sends your name and address to hundreds of companies that never held anything about you has not reduced your exposure. It has widened it.
Each company gets its own list
What we are willing to disclose is set per company, not once for everybody. A marketing list that matches on postal address gets an address. A phone-lookup service gets a number. A B2B contact database gets a work email and no home address at all, because a home address cannot match their records anyway — it would be handing over a detail for nothing.
Some things we will not send at all
Identity documents are the clearest case. A passport or driving licence scan sent to a data broker is a larger exposure than the record being erased, and the law only permits a company to demand extra identity checks where it has reasonable doubts and asks proportionately. Our system cannot store or transmit an ID document — that is enforced in the database, not left to judgement.
Replies rewrite the playbook
Every reply is read and classified. When a company tells us its process has changed, what it demands, or that it holds nothing on the identifier we used, that becomes a durable change to how the next request is sent — with an audit trail showing what changed and which reply caused it.
We hand over as little as we can
A company that has built a profile on you may hold your address history, your phone number, your age, who you live with and what it guesses you earn. Getting that deleted does not require handing all of it back. It requires just enough for the company to find the record — and that is the only thing we send.
Our catalogue records, for each company, which details we are willing to disclose to it. That list is built from what the company genuinely needs to locate a record, and from what it has told us in writing that it needs — never from what is convenient to send.
So the ladder runs steeply downwards. As at 30 August 2026, of the companies in our catalogue with a disclosure list set, every one may be told your name — without it nothing can be matched. Around three in five may be given a postal address. Fewer than half an email address. Fewer than one in ten a phone number. Under one in twenty a date of birth. None may be sent an identity document, because that field cannot be written to the database at all.
Why this is the whole argument
A larger broker list is only better if the extra companies were holding something. If they were not, the request added a company that now knows your name, your address and that you want to be forgotten — and it did that on your behalf, at your request, with your money. Coverage counts are the easiest number in this industry to grow and the least honest one to advertise.
The routes we deliberately do not send on
Not sending is a feature. Each of these is a case where firing off a request anyway would cost you something and gain you nothing.
Identity documents
A small number of companies will not act without a passport or driving licence scan. We do not send one, and the system is built so it cannot. Where that is a company’s stated policy we say so on your dashboard and leave the choice with you, rather than quietly handing it over.
Companies that will not deal with an agent
Some companies refuse requests made on someone’s behalf and will only accept them from the individual. Sending anyway would disclose your details to build a file we cannot then close. Those routes are marked and handed to you with the exact steps instead.
Companies we have taken out of scope
A site that hosts commentary about a phone number is not compiling and selling a profile. When something on our list turns out not to be a data broker, it comes off the list — and it stays off, with the reason recorded. We removed one on those grounds in August 2026.
Sources you should use directly
Some UK records — the open electoral register is the clearest — are removed free through an official route, and adding a third party achieves nothing except one more company holding your request. Where that is true we give you the link and tell you plainly to use it yourself.
What a company writes back changes what we do next
Replies are not filed and forgotten. Each one is read and classified, and where it tells us something durable about that company — a changed process, a field it insists on, a route that no longer works — the catalogue entry is updated and the change is recorded against the reply that caused it. Hundreds of such changes are on record across dozens of companies.
A worked example
In August 2026 two business-contact databases told us, in writing, that a personal home address cannot be matched against a B2B record — so sending one achieved nothing except disclosing it. We added a separate work-email field, gated so it is only used where it has been verified, and stopped sending home addresses on that route. That is one reply changing the rule for everybody who comes after.
You see the same material we do. Every company on your dashboard shows its actual status and, where one has replied, what it said — including when the answer is that it will not act, or that it wants something we will not give it. A status only reads as complete when the company has confirmed it.
Start with what is actually exposed
The free check runs your email address against known breach data and shows you what is already out there. No account, no card. If you want the removals done after that, they are £69.99 a year.
Also worth reading: how the removal engine works · what we remove · how we hold your data