Reddit Personal Information Removal

Reddit personal information removal USA: what to do first

Finding your private information on Reddit is frightening. People call it doxxing when personal details are published to expose or harass someone. If this has happened to you, the first priorities are your safety and speed. Our Reddit personal information removal USA service helps you report the content, reduce its spread and work through the other steps.

If you believe you are in immediate danger, call your local emergency number first. If there are threats, report them to local law enforcement and keep copies of everything.

What Reddit generally treats as personal information

Reddit's rules protect people from having private information shared. Typical examples are:

• Home addresses, or enough detail to find one.
• Personal phone numbers and private email addresses.
• Government ID or financial account numbers.
• Private photos, documents or messages shared without consent.
• Workplace or school details published to target a person.

Information that is public and relevant, such as a business address on a company website, is treated differently, and posts that merely name a public business are usually not privacy violations. A review of the specific content is the only way to say for sure.

A step-by-step plan

1. Preserve evidence. Save links and screenshots showing the content, the username, the community and the date. Do this before anything is deleted.
2. Report it on Reddit. Use the post or comment menu to report it as sharing personal information. Select the closest category and describe what is private and why.
3. Contact moderators. Many communities act fast on privacy violations. A short, polite message with the link and a clear reason works best.
4. Lock down your accounts. Change passwords, turn on two-factor authentication and check privacy settings, in case the exposure leads to account attacks.
5. Report off-platform if needed. Threats, stalking or identity theft should be reported to the police and, for identity theft, to the Federal Trade Commission.
6. Address search results. Google has tools to request removal of certain personal contact information from search results, and to refresh outdated results after the source is gone.
7. Monitor. Check for reposts, and keep a log of each incident.

How we help

We review the content, confirm that it fits a privacy category, prepare a clear report and submit it, then contact moderators where it helps. We also explain which steps you can take on your own at no cost, such as search-result tools and account security, so that you are not paying for things you can do yourself. We keep your own data to the minimum and do not ask for IDs or passwords.

Doxxing and harassment together

Personal information is often published as part of harassment. When that is the case, the report is stronger if it links the exposure to the harassment pattern. We help you assemble a timeline: what was posted, when, by whom and what happened next. See our blog guides on what to do if your personal information appears on Reddit and how to report harassment on Reddit.

Limits

Reddit decides how to enforce its rules, and we cannot guarantee that a report will succeed or how fast. Removal from Reddit does not remove copies others have made. Some information, such as items already published widely elsewhere, may be hard to contain. We tell you honestly where this applies.

Pricing

Cases are quoted after review, and you approve the scope and fee first. See comment removal, thread removal and our Refund and Returns Policy.

Frequently asked questions