How to Opt Out of MyLife (2026)

MyLife.com sells "Reputation Profiles" and a "Public Reputation Score" built from court records, social media, and other public data. Its current opt-out is a free online form, not the phone-call process some older guides describe, and this guide verified the live form directly.

Opt-out flow verified: August 14, 2026

What MyLife Shows and Why It Is Different

MyLife.com builds what it calls "Reputation Profiles," which the site describes as going beyond a typical background report: "These Reputation Profiles can include everything that affects someone's reputation. That could consist of Criminal and Civil Court Records, lawsuits, liens, judgements, income, property records, social media, work and education history, photos, personal reviews, and complete contact details." MyLife also markets a "Public Reputation Score" for each profile, which it describes as a quick way for a visitor to assess someone. Both features are live on the site as of this guide's verification.

MyLife's own footer states directly: "MyLife is NOT a Consumer Reporting Agency. You may NOT use our information to make decisions about consumer credit, employment, tenancy or any other purpose that would require FCRA compliance." That disclaimer exists because MyLife has already been the subject of a federal enforcement action built substantially around exactly that kind of misuse, described below.

Federal Enforcement History: A Real, Resolved Case

This is not a theoretical FCRA risk for MyLife specifically. The U.S. Department of Justice, acting for the FTC, filed a complaint against MyLife.com Inc. and its founder and CEO, Jeffrey Tinsley, on July 27, 2020, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The complaint alleged MyLife sold subscriptions to its background report service by implying, often falsely, that a search subject had a criminal or arrest record when the underlying record was, in some cases, merely a traffic citation. It also alleged MyLife violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act because it promoted its reports for employment decisions and tenant screening while lacking reasonable procedures to ensure maximum possible accuracy, and separately alleged the company trapped subscribers in hard-to-cancel automatically renewing subscriptions in violation of the Telemarketing Sales Rule and the Restore Online Shoppers Confidence Act.

A federal judge granted the government partial summary judgment on October 19, 2021, finding MyLife liable on the deceptive-marketing, Telemarketing Sales Rule, and automatic-renewal claims, and finding $33.9 million in consumer redress was appropriate. MyLife and Tinsley then agreed to a stipulated order, entered December 16, 2021, requiring $21 million in actual consumer redress (Tinsley personally paying $5 million, MyLife's share partially suspended to $16 million based on demonstrated inability to pay the full amount), a permanent ban on using a negative-option automatic-renewal structure, an express prohibition on implying a traffic citation is a criminal or arrest record, and 20 years of compliance and reporting obligations under the FTC Act, the Telemarketing Sales Rule, ROSCA, and the FCRA.

That history is directly relevant to this guide's central warning: never use a MyLife report, or any people-search report in this series, to screen a job applicant, a tenant, or a credit decision. MyLife's own past conduct is the FTC's primary example of what goes wrong when a people-search company blurs that line.

The Opt-Out Flow, Verified Step by Step

MyLife's footer links to a page titled "Do Not Sell My Personal Information," which leads to mylife.com/privacyrequest. This guide opened that page directly. It is titled "MyLife Opt-Out Form" and headed "Deletion and Opt Out of Sale of Personal Information," with this introductory text: "Submit this form with your information to request opt-out and deletion from MyLife.com. Requests are processed within the legally required time frames. Any profile listing published on our website that matches your information, will be permanently removed."

The form's fields, confirmed directly this session:

1. State (required, dropdown).
2. First Name and Last Name (required).
3. City and Postal/Zip Code (required, under a "Location" heading).
4. Email Validator (required) with a "Verify Email" button next to the field, meaning the email must be validated before the form can proceed.
5. Birth Year (YYYY) (required). MyLife's own helper text explains why: "Your birth year helps us locate your correct profile."
6. Middle Initial (optional).
7. Maiden Name or Alias Name (optional).
8. Profile URL for your profile listing (optional), with a linked helper, "Find your profile listing on MyLife.com," for locating it first.
9. reCAPTCHA ("I'm not a robot" checkbox), labeled "Please verify that you are human."
10. Submit button.

No phone call is required to complete this process. This guide's own verification directly contradicts the older assumption that MyLife removal only works by calling the company; the current live path is entirely form-based.

Difficulty: Moderate

This guide rates MyLife Moderate. It is free and does not require a phone call, but it asks for more fields than almost any other broker in this series, including a required birth year, and gates the email field behind a separate verification step before the rest of the form can be submitted. That is more friction than a one-click suppression link, even though nothing here requires payment or a phone conversation.

California Residents: DROP, Plus MyLife's Own State-Rights List

California's Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform (DROP) lets a California resident submit one deletion request reaching every broker registered with the California Privacy Protection Agency, with registered brokers required to process matched requests since August 1, 2026. This guide did not independently confirm MyLife's current registration status on that registry. Separately, and confirmed directly on MyLife's own opt-out page, MyLife states: "Residents of some U.S. states, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Virginia (and other states as new laws become effective) provide their consumers with rights to 'opt out' of sale of their personal information and/or to 'delete' that information from company databases. We provide these options to residents of these states and (at our discretion) residents of other states as well." That is a broader list of covered states than most brokers in this series publish, and MyLife's own language extends the option to other states "at our discretion" even where no statute requires it.

Relisting and Re-Check Cadence

MyLife's own form states a submitted request results in permanent removal of any "matching" listing, but that promise is bounded by the same limit every broker in this series shares: it applies to the listing that exists at the time of the request, not to future public records. A new court filing, a new social media post indexed by MyLife, or a new data supply from a public-records vendor can generate a fresh profile later. This guide recommends re-searching your own name on MyLife every few months, particularly given the Reputation Score feature's ongoing incentive to keep profiles current.

Related guides

• How to Opt Out of Data Brokers (2026)
• US Data Broker Registration Laws & the Delete Act
• How to Submit a Data Deletion Request (2026)
• How to File a Data Privacy Complaint (2026)

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I have to call MyLife on the phone to opt out?

No, not based on the current live process. This guide opened MyLife's opt-out form directly at mylife.com/privacyrequest and confirmed it is a self-service online form. That corrects an outdated assumption that MyLife removal requires a phone call; the current path does not.

Is MyLife's opt-out form free?

Yes. The Deletion and Opt Out of Sale of Personal Information form does not present a paid tier or fee. It asks for identifying information, not payment.

Why does MyLife ask for my birth year to opt out?

MyLife's own form states the birth year 'helps us locate your correct profile,' since many people share the same name. It is a required field on the current form.

Has MyLife been in trouble with regulators before?

Yes. The Department of Justice, on the FTC's behalf, obtained a $21 million consumer redress settlement and a 20-year compliance order against MyLife.com Inc. and its CEO Jeffrey Tinsley in December 2021, following a 2020 complaint alleging deceptive criminal-record implications, automatic-renewal violations, and Fair Credit Reporting Act violations tied to marketing background reports for employment and tenant screening.

Can I use a MyLife Reputation Score to screen a job applicant?

No. MyLife's own footer states it is not a Consumer Reporting Agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act and that its information cannot be used for employment, tenancy, credit, or any other FCRA-covered decision. Using a Reputation Profile for that purpose does not comply with FCRA requirements that apply to that kind of decision.

Whose name is on MyLife's current opt-out page and privacy policy?

MyLife's current site footer credits its copyright to InsightBridge LLC. That is a different name than 'MyLife.com, Inc.,' which was the named defendant in the 2020-2021 federal enforcement action. This guide did not independently confirm the legal relationship between the two names, so it is reporting both as separately observed facts rather than asserting a corporate history.

Will my MyLife profile stay gone permanently?

Not guaranteed. MyLife's form promises removal of a matching listing at the time of your request, but new public records, court filings, or indexed social media activity can generate a new profile later. Periodic re-checking is a reasonable practice.