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What Happened to Radaris (and Where Your Data Still Is)

Last checked: October 25, 2026

Quick answer: Radaris did not shut down voluntarily and it was not hacked. In August 2026, a New Jersey court ordered radaris.com — and 13 related domains — transferred to Atlas Data Privacy Corp. The site now shows a court notice. There is no opt-out form anymore, and no need to use one. But your data did not vanish with the site: the same records still feed other people-search sites, and some affiliated sites were not part of the order. The useful work now is clearing old Google results and opting out at the sites that are still live.

If you searched for how to remove yourself from Radaris and landed on instructions telling you to open its opt-out page, ignore them. Those guides — and there are many — describe a site that no longer exists in that form. This page explains what actually happened, what it does and does not mean for your information, and the steps that are still worth your time.

The court case, in plain terms

The case was brought by Atlas Data Privacy Corp. on behalf of about 21,760 covered public workers — a group that includes law-enforcement officers, judges, and similar officials whose home addresses New Jersey law specifically protects. That law is Daniel's Law, named for Daniel Anderl, the son of a federal judge, who was killed in 2020 by an attacker who found the family's home address. Daniel's Law makes it unlawful to disclose protected workers' home addresses and gives them a route to demand removal and sue when companies refuse.

Atlas said Radaris and its related sites kept publishing protected addresses after removal demands. The litigation produced judgments in stages:

In total, radaris.com and 13 related domains changed hands by court order. Visit radaris.com today and you will see a court notice rather than a working people-search site.

Radaris said it intends to appeal, according to reporting by KrebsOnSecurity. An appeal means the legal story may not be entirely finished. For practical purposes, though, readers should deal with the situation as it stands: the site is under Atlas's control, displays a court notice, and offers no functioning opt-out process — because there is no operating Radaris search site left to opt out of.

What this means for your information

There is no Radaris opt-out anymore. Do not look for the form, and do not use an old bookmark of one. Any instructions that walk you through a Radaris removal form are out of date, however professional the page looks.

Do not pay anyone to "remove you from Radaris." This is the most important practical warning on this page. Since the transfer, there is nothing for a paid service — or a scammer — to remove from an operating Radaris site. Be especially wary of any site that claims, today, to delete your Radaris profile for a fee. That claim does not match the court's transfer of the domain.

Your data did not vanish. Radaris did not invent the information it displayed. Like every people-search site, it assembled names, addresses, and phone numbers from public records and other data sources — and those sources still exist, still feed other sites, and were untouched by this judgment. The same records that appeared on Radaris continue to surface on large, still-operating people-search sites such as Spokeo and Whitepages, among many others. Removing a Radaris listing was always only one piece of the picture; now that piece has been removed by a court, and the rest of the picture remains.

Some affiliated sites were not part of the order. The judgment named specific domains. Some affiliated sites were not part of the order and may still operate — VeriPages, for example, was reported still live initially after the transfer. We phrase this carefully because the status of individual sister sites can change, and a site being live this month is not a guarantee about next month. The right response is to check: search your name, see which sites actually list you today, and opt out at those.

What to do instead: three practical steps

1. Clear the old Google results. Even with the site gone, Google search results can keep showing old Radaris snippets and links for a time. Use Google's Results About You tool to request removal of results that show your personal contact information, and Google's outdated content tool for pages that no longer exist or no longer match what Google displays. These tools clean up the search result; they do not delete source data — which is why step 2 still matters.

2. Opt out at the sites that are still live. Work through the major people-search sites that list you now — starting with the largest, such as Spokeo and Whitepages, and any affiliated sites you find listing your details. Each one takes a separate request, each states its own timeline, and listings can reappear when data is collected again. Our opt-out guides on this site cover these brokers one by one, with the steps as we last checked them.

3. Keep perspective — and a recheck habit. The Radaris judgment is genuinely significant: a major people-search site was taken away from its operator by a court, something that has rarely happened in this industry. But it removed one display of your data, not the data itself. A short recheck every few months — search your name, your phone number, and your address, and file fresh opt-outs where listings have reappeared — is what keeps your exposure down over time.

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