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Take your data back

Plain-English, India-first guides to remove your personal information from data brokers — and use the DPDP Act 2023 to make them comply.

App deletion

How to delete a delivery partner or captain account: Blinkit, Zepto, Swiggy, Rapido, Porter

Where to ask, what each company says it keeps (Aadhaar, PAN, licence, bank, location), and how to ask for the rest to be erased.

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Privacy guides

How to revoke a consent in DigiLocker (including the GATE GOAPS error)

Where DigiLocker lists the apps you've shared documents with, how to revoke one, and withdrawing consent from banks and Account Aggregators.

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Privacy guides

How to stop Dish TV, Tata Play and other DTH promotional calls

TRAI's category block for DTH offers, the consent clause in your DTH contract, and how to complain about calls that keep coming.

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Privacy guides

How to de-Google your Android phone in India (without breaking UPI)

Three levels, from 10 minutes of settings to GrapheneOS on a Pixel, with an honest note on bank and UPI apps.

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Privacy guides

How to stop spam calls on Jio, Airtel and Vi

The exact DND steps for your network, the 3-day complaint rule, and what to do about calls DND can't stop.

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Privacy guides

How to lock your Aadhaar biometrics and check who used your Aadhaar

Six months of authentication history, the biometric lock, and what to do about a use you don't recognise.

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App deletion

How to delete your Sanatan App account (2026)

Which of the similarly named apps you actually have, who operates it, the one address to email, and the three-month retention limit its own privacy notice sets.

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Scams & safety

Loan app harassment: what to do right now (2026)

Contacts being called or morphed photos threatened? Save the evidence, cut the app's access, and report to cybercrime.gov.in, 1930, the lender and the RBI Ombudsman.

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Your rights

Can you delete your Aadhaar data? What the new Aadhaar app lets you control

You can't delete Aadhaar. You can lock your biometrics, check authentication history, share a masked copy, and ask companies to erase the copies they hold.

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App deletion

How to delete your ABHA health ID: deactivate vs delete

The official Deactivate/Delete option on the ABHA portal, what each one does, what happens to your health records, and how to revoke consents first.

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Your rights

How to fix an error in your credit report (CIBIL, Experian, Equifax, CRIF High Mark)

Dispute a wrong loan, late-payment mark or identity mix-up with all four bureaus. The RBI's 30-day limit, ₹100/day compensation, and the Ombudsman route.

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App deletion

How to delete your Bharat Taxi account (2026)

Who to email, what to settle first, what the cooperative's privacy policy says it keeps, and the lookalike app to avoid.

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Scam Triage

WhatsApp Video Call Sextortion Scam in India: How Blackmailers Find You

Emergency steps for video call blackmail: 1930 CyberCrime portal, StopNCII, and erasing your number from data brokers.

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Women's Safety

Leaked intimate photos or videos: what to do right now

The first steps, the 2-hour platform takedown rule, StopNCII, cybercrime.gov.in and Google removal, in plain words.

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Scam Analysis

Digital Arrest Scam in India: How Scammers Know Your Aadhaar & Address

How Digital Arrest scammers quote your exact address and identity from data brokers, and how to delete your footprint.

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DPDP Act

DPDP Rules 2025: your data rights in India, explained

The DPDP Rules 2025 are notified and enforcement is coming by May 2027. Your rights, when each becomes enforceable, and how to use them today.

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DIY guide

Free data removal in India: the DIY guide (2026)

The DPDP Act gives you the right for free — find your exposure, send erasure requests with our free generator, and escalate if ignored.

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Toolkit

10 free privacy tools worth knowing about (2026)

Breach checkers, Google/Facebook data controls, ad opt-outs and old-account finders — plus the India-specific gaps they leave behind.

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DPDP Act

DPDP Act 2023 compliance checklist for Indian businesses

Consent, security safeguards, breach notification, erasure workflows, logging — and the ₹250 crore penalty schedule, in plain English.

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Comparison

5 Incogni alternatives for India, compared

Incogni targets US/EU brokers. Five alternatives ranked for Indian users — DIY, DeleteMe, Privacy Bee, Mozilla Monitor, and an India-first option.

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Comparison

Does DeleteMe work in India? What to use instead

DeleteMe covers US people-search sites — not TrueCaller, JustDial or the DPDP Act. What actually removes your data in India.

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Your rights

Company ignored your data-deletion request? How to escalate

Send a final legal notice, then file a Data Protection Board complaint under the DPDP Act — with a free generator for both.

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TrueCaller se apna number kaise hataye (2026 ka tarika)

Deactivate + unlist — TrueCaller se naam aur number hatane ke 4 aasan steps, Hindi me. 24 ghante me asar.

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Broker removal

How to remove your number from TrueCaller in India (2026)

Deactivate, unlist and stop TrueCaller showing your name and number — the complete, current method.

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JustDial se apna number kaise hataye — spam calls band karo

Listing dhundo, Grievance Officer ko DPDP email bhejo, lead-sharing off karo — poora tarika Hindi me.

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Broker removal

How to delete your JustDial listing & stop the spam calls

Get your number and business listing off JustDial: the in-app deactivation, what it keeps, and the DPDP erasure request for the rest.

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Reference

The data brokers selling your data in India (2026 list)

The major Indian data brokers and people-search sites, what each holds about you, and how to opt out.

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Your rights

DPDP Act 2023: your right to get your data deleted

What the law actually says, the Section 12 right to erasure, and how to send a request that gets results.

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The data trade

Who sold your phone number? Inside India's grey market for data

Police said the buyers of India's biggest stolen datasets were marketing agencies — and 10,000 people's details went for ₹2,500.

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Spam & privacy

How to report a spam call in India — the 7-day rule

Five unique complainants against one sender in ten days forces a disconnection. Almost nobody is told this.

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The data trade

Your bank wasn't hacked. Its vendor leaked you.

Why the caller knows which bank you use — and what Indian law actually entitles you to about it.

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Spam & privacy

How to stop spam calls in India that actually works (2026)

DND, reporting and blocking — plus the real root cause: your number is on data-broker lists that get sold.

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Broker removal

How to remove your details from Zaubacorp

Get your director name, DIN and address off Zaubacorp with a DPDP Act Section 12 erasure request.

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Spam & privacy

How to stop spam SMS & promotional messages in India

SMS DND via 1909, reporting and blocking — plus cutting off the broker lists that leak your number.

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Explainer

Where is my data being sold? (And who's buying it)

The data supply chain behind every spam call — who collects your data, who buys it, and how to find your exposure.

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Broker removal

How to remove your number from IndiaMART & stop the calls

Delete your listing, opt out of buy-leads, and send a DPDP Section 12 erasure request.

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Naukri se resume kaise hataye — account delete ka poora tarika

Backup, hide-vs-delete, aur recruiters ke paas bachi copies DPDP Act se hatane ka tarika — Hindi me.

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Broker removal

How to delete or deactivate your Naukri account

Naukri’s own delete and deactivate steps, the email you can’t reuse afterwards, and the recruiter copies deletion misses.

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Security news

CISA flagged a vulnerability — does it affect your data?

What a CISA / KEV alert really means for a regular person, and how it ends up leaking your data.

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Security news

What's a CVE — and why a software bug becomes your problem

The chain from a CVE to a breach that leaks your email, password and phone — and what to actually do.

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Security news

How to follow breach news (Krebs & co.) and act on it

The few sources worth following and a simple monthly routine to stay ahead of breaches in India.

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Breach & leaks

Has your phone number or email been leaked? How to check

Check breaches for your email and number with Have I Been Pwned — and what to do if you're exposed.

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Breach & leaks

Your data was in a breach — what to do now

What gets exposed (passwords, phone, address), what scammers do with it in India, and how to protect yourself.

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Comparison

Incogni vs Saaph: data removal built for India

Coverage of Indian brokers, the DPDP Act 2023 and ₹ pricing — which one actually removes your data in India?

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Comparison

Incogni vs DeleteMe vs Saaph: which actually works in India?

All three, head-to-head: Indian broker coverage, DPDP Act vs GDPR/CCPA, and ₹ vs USD pricing.

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Broker removal

Remove your number from 99acres, MagicBricks & Housing

Stop the property-agent flood: delete your account, opt out of leads, and send a DPDP Section 12 request.

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Comparison

Best data removal services in India (and a free way to start)

DIY vs global services (Incogni, DeleteMe) vs India-first — compared, with typical costs.

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Complete guide

How to erase your digital footprint in India

The full method in 5 layers: data brokers, Google Search, social media, breaches and monitoring.

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Digital footprint

How to remove your name & personal info from Google Search

Google's "Results about you" tool, removal requests — and the real fix: removing the data at the source.

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Digital footprint

How to delete old social media accounts in India

Delete or lock down Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn and Snapchat — and clear the data brokers too.

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