Built from public record, not a scraped list.
The set of companies we can file a statutory request against comes from government broker registries. This page is how it is assembled and kept honest. The catalogue itself is served to your key.
Where it comes from
State data-broker registries are the authoritative source. They are government records, they are public, and by law each entry carries a compliance contact and a rights URL. That is the difference between a filing catalogue and a list of websites somebody collected: every entry arrives with a legally-mandated place to send a request.
Registered entries are supplemented by brokers we have verified are filable but are not in a state registry. Those are marked as such in the export, so you can always tell which authority an entry rests on.
Why the number is smaller than the marketing number
Companies that own several brands share one compliance address, and one filing to that address covers all of them. We deduplicate on that basis. A catalogue counted by brand rather than by filing target looks larger and files exactly the same number of requests.
The export shows the group size for each entry, so you can see how many brands a single filing covers rather than taking our word for the arithmetic.
Detection and removal are different surfaces
You do not have to find a listing to file against the company holding it. The set of sites a scan can search is much smaller than the set of companies a request can be filed against, and conflating the two is how headline numbers in this category get inflated.
We report them separately, because they answer different questions. Detection answers "what will my user see". Removal answers "who can I file against on their behalf".
Most of the filing catalogue is business-to-business, marketing and credit brokers that a consumer never searches for and never finds themselves on. That breadth is real, and it is the weaker half for consumer-visible value. The people-search tier is where a user recognises themselves, and it is the part worth showing them.
Retrieving it
The catalogue is served live from the same registry the filing engine reads, so it cannot go stale relative to what we actually file against. It is behind your key: the underlying entries are public record, the assembled list is not something we publish.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $KEY" \\
https://api.brokerblitzer.com/v1/premium/sources/removal.csv
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $KEY" \\
https://api.brokerblitzer.com/v1/premium/sources/removal.json
Columns include the filing email, the group size that email covers, the opt-out URL, whether the entry is people-search, and whether it is registry-backed.