Privacy Bee

Consumers are bombarded with telemarketing calls, spam emails and texts, junk mail, and even doxxing or scam attempts because data brokers buy and sell their personal information such as phone numbers, addresses, birthdays, financial info, and family details. This happens without the individual's knowledge or consent, and the exposure fuels everything from marketing spam to targeted attacks by scammers, hackers, stalkers, and thieves who use exposed data like home addresses, employer info, and relatives' names. Today, consumers have no practical way to manage their privacy across thousands of different data broker websites, since each has its own opt-out process and data brokers routinely sell info to companies the consumer has never heard of. This leaves people feeling exposed and lacking any centralized way to enforce their own privacy preferences.

Privacy Bee is a platform that scans for a user's personal data exposures online, including on data broker sites and the dark web, and automatically initiates takedowns using a mix of automation and human effort. According to the site, the service works in stages: an initial scan of exposures, removal from major data broker sites, deeper work on hard-to-remove sites and dark web threats, and then ongoing 24/7 monitoring with alerts. Users get a real-time dashboard with a 'Privacy Risk Score' that tracks exposure levels over time, an encrypted 'Identity Vault' for storing sensitive personal info that Privacy Bee actively monitors and protects, and a transparency page listing every data source engaged on the user's behalf with exportable status details. The company states it addresses 1,132 data brokers and offers a free scan plus unlimited free monitoring with no credit card required to start.