Guide
Claude Privacy Audit Prompts
If you have never checked what the internet knows about you, this is the slightly uncomfortable place to start. Claude can help you map the places your details may appear, rank what matters most, and draft the removal requests. You still need to check the sites and submit what they ask for, because privacy pages love making this annoying.
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Map where your data can appear
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Rank each source by privacy risk
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Draft removal requests
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Submit and recheck
Home address
Usually the highest priority. Remove this before tidying up old usernames.
Phone and email
These fuel spam, scams, and unwanted contact. Annoying, but fixable.
Family links
People search sites often expose relatives, associates, and household history.
Old profiles
Clean up stale bios, abandoned accounts, and public photos that no longer help you.
Where to check
- Search engines Google, Bing, image results, cached snippets, and old pages that still show up.
- Social profiles Public accounts, old usernames, bios, tagged photos, comments, and profile links.
- Old accounts Forums, marketplaces, school accounts, abandoned apps, newsletters, and login pages you forgot existed.
- Business listings Directories, portfolio pages, company bios, old job pages, and local listing sites.
- Data brokers Sites that collect names, addresses, phone numbers, relatives, emails, and other personal details.
- People search sites Lookup sites that package your personal information into a neat little nightmare.
How to use it
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Build the audit checklist
Start broad. Ask Claude to list every category where your public information can appear, then turn it into a checklist you can work through.
Help me audit my public digital footprint. Create a checklist of every place my personal information can appear online.
Claude - 2
Turn it into a risk table
Now make the list useful. Claude should show what each source can expose, how risky it is, and what to handle first.
Create a privacy risk table showing what type of information each source might expose and how urgent it is to remove.
Claude - 3
Draft the removal requests
Once you know the risky categories, get Claude to write request templates and step-by-step removal instructions for each one.
Write removal request templates for each category and give me the exact steps I should follow.
Claude - 4
Use CoWork for the boring parts
If you use an agent browser like CoWork, you can ask it to visit the sites, find each opt-out form, and help submit the requests. Review everything before it sends personal information anywhere.
Go to each of those sites you listed, find the data removal or opt-out process, and help me submit the removal request. Ask me before entering sensitive information or submitting any form.
Claude
Tips
- Do not paste private IDs, passwords, or security answers into Claude. Keep the audit to public information.
- Some removal forms require email confirmation. Use an email address you actually check.
- Take screenshots of every request you submit. Data broker sites have a funny habit of pretending nothing happened.
- Recheck the same sites later. Some removals take weeks, and some records come back from upstream data sources.
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