Ghost was founded on a simple idea: every person should own their digital footprint. Today, that footprint is scattered across thousands of data brokers, people-search sites, breach archives, and dark-web mirrors — none of which you ever consented to. You are listed on hundreds of databases you have never heard of, and most of them will only remove you if you ask in exactly the right way, in exactly the right place, at exactly the right time. Ghost does that work on your behalf.
We are a small team of engineers, privacy lawyers, and OSINT researchers based in London and New York. We come from companies that built the surveillance economy — and from regulators that tried to rein it in. We started Ghost because the tools we needed to protect our own families did not exist. So we built them.
Our mission
Make personal privacy a default, not a privilege. The information asymmetry between you and the parties that profit from your data is the defining unfairness of the modern internet. We are here to close it — for you, your family, and the people on your team.
We measure ourselves on a single number: the count of personal records we have permanently removed from the public web on behalf of our customers. Everything else — features, pricing, the company — exists to make that number go up.
What we believe
- You own your identity. A data broker selling your home address to anyone who pays is the same as a stranger reading your post. You did not consent. The fact that it scales does not change the principle.
- Privacy is a security control. Most attacks against people — phishing, SIM swaps, account takeovers, stalking — start with a few open-source identifiers. Reducing your public surface is the cheapest, highest-leverage thing you can do.
- AI is a tool, not a decision-maker. We use AI to find, prioritise, and draft. We use humans (you, or a Ghost analyst) to decide and to sign. See our AI Policy.
- Defaults beat dashboards. A privacy product that requires you to log in every week to stay safe will not keep you safe. Ghost runs in the background by design.
How Ghost works, in one paragraph
You give us a small set of identifiers — your name, current and prior emails, phone numbers, addresses, and any aliases you care about. We scan 1,200+ public sources for matches, score every exposure by the likely harm it enables, and file the right kind of removal request at each broker — opt-out, suppression, deletion, or right-to-be-forgotten — using the law that applies to you. We chase the brokers until they confirm. We re-scan on a rolling schedule and quietly clean up anything that comes back. See our practices for the operational detail.
Where we are
Ghost is headquartered in London, with engineering and operations in New York. Our team is async-first across the UK, EU, and US timezones. We are backed by a small group of operators and founders from the security and consumer software industries; we have not taken venture capital from anyone whose business model depends on harvesting personal data.
In the press
For media inquiries, weekly threat-landscape briefings, or spokesperson availability on identity, privacy, and online safety topics, write to press@useghost.me. We respond within one business day.
Hiring
We are hiring across engineering, legal, operations, and growth — see the careers page for the current list of roles. If you do not see your role but think we should know you, write to hello@useghost.me with a paragraph about what you would build.