How to delete your personal data in Indiana
Indiana gives you a statutory right to have your data deleted, and businesses covered by the law must respond. The catch is that you exercise it company by company: there is no central list and no single request that reaches everyone.
What the Indiana CDPA gives you
The Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act took effect in January 2026.
- The right to delete — ask a business to erase the personal data it holds about you.
- The right to know — ask what data a business has collected and who it shared it with.
- The right to correct — fix inaccurate information, which matters when a broker has you at the wrong address.
- The right to opt out of sale — stop a business selling or sharing your data for targeted advertising.
- The right to portability — get a copy of your data in a usable format.
What to do, in order
- Exercise your right to delete under the Indiana CDPA. Indiana's Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act took effect in January 2026 and gives you a statutory right to have covered businesses delete the personal data they hold about you. A request made under the law is not a favour you are asking — the business has a legal obligation to respond within a set window. Say plainly that you are exercising your right to delete under the Indiana CDPA.
- Opt out of the highest-impact brokers by hand. A small number of people-search sites account for most of what appears when someone searches your name. Clearing those changes your search results far more than working alphabetically through a long list. Every one of these opt-outs is free, and we publish step-by-step instructions.
- Use Google's own removal tool. Separately from anything your state offers, Google will consider removing search results that expose your phone number, home address or email. It does not delete the underlying page, but it removes the result that causes most of the practical harm. It is free and takes a few minutes.
- Close the accounts that keep refilling the databases. Removal is not permanent, and the main reason is that dormant online accounts get breached and re-seed the broker databases you just cleared. Closing old accounts is the part almost nobody does, and it is the difference between cleaning up once and staying clean.
- Re-check every few months. Brokers rebuild from public records and from each other, so listings reappear. Whatever route you take — state platform, statutory requests, manual opt-outs or a paid service — treat it as maintenance rather than a one-time fix.
Frequently asked questions
Does Indiana have a data privacy law?
Yes. The Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act (Indiana CDPA) took effect in January 2026. It gives residents rights to access, delete, correct and port their personal data, and to opt out of its sale.
How do I remove my personal information from the internet in Indiana?
Send deletion requests under the Indiana CDPA to businesses holding your data, and opt out of the major people-search sites directly — those free opt-outs are what changes your search results fastest. Then close dormant online accounts, which are what refill broker databases after you clear them.
Can Indiana residents use California's DROP platform?
No. DROP verifies California residency and is limited to Californians. No other state has built an equivalent, and none has committed to one. Residents elsewhere still have to send requests broker by broker — which is free, just slower.
Is it free to remove my data in Indiana?
Yes. Every data broker opt-out is free — no broker may charge you to be removed, and none of the routes described here costs anything. What a paid service sells is the labour and the repetition, not access. If you are willing to work through the list yourself a couple of times a year, you can get most of the benefit for nothing.
Law names and effective dates last checked 2026-07-29. General information about consumer privacy rights, not legal advice.
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Rather not do this manually?
Every opt-out on this site is free to do yourself. The catch is that brokers re-list you within months, so it is a recurring job rather than a one-off. These services handle the repetition for you: