Before you pay anyone for "data removal," run through the free tools below — official ones from Google, Meta, Mozilla, HaveIBeenPwned and the ad industry itself. They cover breach checks, search results, ad tracking and old accounts. What none of them cover: India-specific brokers like TrueCaller, JustDial and Zaubacorp — that gap is what a DPDP Act-aware scan is for.
1. Check if you've been in a data breach
- Have I Been Pwned — the standard email-breach checker. There's also a phone number lookup.
- Firefox Monitor — Mozilla's breach monitoring, with ongoing alerts if a new breach includes your email.
- Malwarebytes Exposure Lookup and ESET Leak Checker — two more independent breach databases; worth checking more than one since coverage differs.
If your email turns up, the fix is the same everywhere: change that password (and anywhere you reused it), turn on two-factor authentication, and treat any breached phone number or address as now-public. See our full walkthrough: what to do after a data breach →
2. See — and remove — what Google has on you
- Results about you — Google's own tool for finding search results that show your contact details (phone, home address, email) and requesting they be removed from Search.
- Removing personal information from Search — the troubleshooter for cases the tool above doesn't cover.
- Legal removal requests — for content Google should remove for legal reasons (non-consensual imagery, doxxing content, etc.).
Removing a result from Google Search doesn't delete it from the site hosting it — you still need to ask that site directly. If it's an Indian company, that's exactly what a DPDP erasure request is for.
3. Turn off ad tracking
- Google Ad Center — control or turn off ad personalisation across Google's products.
- Off-Facebook Activity — see and clear the activity other apps/sites report back to Meta about you.
- Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out — a single page that opts you out of behavioural ad tracking across dozens of ad networks at once.
4. Find (and delete) accounts you forgot about
- JustDeleteMe — a directory of direct account-deletion links for hundreds of services, rated by how hard each one makes it.
- JustGetMyData — the companion directory for the other half of the job: getting a copy of what a service holds on you before (or instead of) deleting the account.
Where these tools stop — and India starts
Every tool above is built for global platforms: Google, Meta, the big ad networks, breach databases sourced mostly from Western incidents. None of them know that TrueCaller has your name against your phone number, that JustDial is showing your address to anyone who searches it, or that Zaubacorp is publishing your home address because you were once listed as a company director. These are the platforms that actually drive spam calls and doxxing risk for people in India — and they're invisible to every tool on this page.
That's the specific gap Saaph is built for: a scan across 50+ Indian platforms plus breach data, and a free DPDP Act 2023 erasure-request generator for whatever it finds. Use the tools above for the global side of your footprint, and run a free Saaph scan for the India-specific side they can't see. If you'd rather do the Indian side manually too, our free DIY guide walks through that end to end.
Cover the India-specific gap
Global tools don't see TrueCaller, JustDial or Zaubacorp. Saaph's free scan does — plus a free DPDP erasure-request generator for whatever it finds.
Run a free scan →FAQ
Are these free privacy tools safe to use?
Yes — they're the official tools from Google, Meta, Mozilla, Malwarebytes, ESET and HaveIBeenPwned, plus the ad industry's own opt-out registry. None charge, and none ask for more than the check itself needs.
Do these tools cover TrueCaller, JustDial or other Indian platforms?
No — they're global tools with no visibility into India-specific brokers. That's the gap a DPDP Act-aware scan covers.
Why would I use Saaph if these tools are free?
Use both. These cover global exposure; Saaph's free scan and DPDP generator cover the Indian side. Paying only buys having those Indian requests sent and tracked for you.
General information as of July 2026. Third-party tools are linked for convenience — Saaph.in isn't affiliated with and doesn't vouch for their ongoing accuracy; check each tool's own privacy policy before use. Not legal advice.