Remove Doxxing Content from the Internet – Expert Assessment
Remove Doxxing Content from the Internet – Free Expert Assessment
Someone has published your home address, your phone number, your workplace, or your family’s personal details online – and they have done it to harass you, intimidate you or to encourage others to do the same. You need it taken down. You have come to the right place. We are Cohen Davis Solicitors, and we are the only law firm in the UK with a dedicated team that specialises exclusively in successful right to be forgotten and online content removal applications. Removing doxxing content is one of the most urgent things we do.
Unlike content removal companies, we are qualified solicitors. That means we can write to platforms with the weight of legal consequence behind every letter, file formal complaints with the ICO, secure court orders where the situation calls for one, and pursue the people who posted the content directly. Doxxing is not just unpleasant – under UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018, the Online Safety Act 2023, and the common law tort of misuse of private information, it is unlawful. We use every one of those tools.
When private details are weaponised against you online, time matters. So does legal precision.
The Expert Assessment is free. A specialist solicitor reviews the doxxing content, identifies which legal route will move fastest, and gives you an honest answer on what can be removed and how long it should take. No sales pitch. No obligation. Just a clear plan.
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What we’ve achieved – removing doxxing content from the internet
Real results from real cases. Not estimates. Not projections.
- Entire YouTube channels taken down after they were used to publish a client’s home address and turn followers against him
- Tweets containing private information removed from X (Twitter) using formal Notice of Objection procedures
- WHOIS database entries removed when old domain registrations were being mined to expose home addresses
- Wayback Machine snapshots taken offline using copyright and data protection arguments where data protection alone was insufficient
- LinkedIn profiles cleansed of aggregated personal data being used to enable real-world harassment
- Companies House service addresses changed and historic addresses suppressed where they were exposing clients to physical risk
- Successful action across the UK, United States, Canada, Australia and the EU
- Law Society Excellence Awards – 2016 Winner, 2019 Shortlisted
The UK’s specialist in removing doxxing content from the internet
We are Cohen Davis Solicitors – the first dedicated internet law firm in the UK, and the only UK firm with a team that specialises exclusively in right to be forgotten and online content removal work. Our team is led by Yair Cohen, an internet law specialist with over 25 years’ experience handling doxxing, harassment, data protection, defamation and online reputation cases. We are not a content removal company. We are a regulated law firm, and that distinction is the difference between a polite take-down request and a removal that actually happens.
Doxxing cases very often involve more than one platform, more than one piece of content, and more than one legal angle. We work the case from every direction: the platforms, the source publisher, Google, the data brokers feeding the doxxer, and where appropriate, the doxxer themselves. Because we have been doing this for so long, we know which lever to pull first – and we know the people on the other side of that lever.
We are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. That means legal professional privilege from the moment you contact us, a formal duty of care, and the ability to escalate – to the ICO, to the platforms’ legal teams, and into court – whenever the case demands it.
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What doxxing content can be removed from the internet?
Doxxing rarely involves a single piece of content. It is usually a deliberate attempt to combine pieces of personal information – some of it lawfully public, some of it private – into a profile designed to expose, harass or harm. Over 25 years we have removed virtually every type of doxxing content. Whatever has been published, the chances are we have dealt with it before.
Home addresses, phone numbers and contact details
Your home address, your phone number, your email, the addresses of your family, your children’s school – published on forums, social media, paste sites, harassment platforms or in YouTube video descriptions. Where this content puts your physical safety at risk, we treat the case with the urgency it deserves and pursue removal at every level: the source, the platform, the search engines, and the data brokers who feed the doxxer’s research.
Aggregated personal data – private profiles built from public scraps
A piece of business information here, a Companies House service address there, an old domain registration on a WHOIS lookup, an electoral roll entry on a directory site, a LinkedIn employment history. Each item may be lawfully public on its own. Combined into a single profile designed to identify, locate and target you, that aggregation becomes unlawful – a new piece of personal data created without your consent and without a lawful basis. We use this argument to remove aggregated profiles where standard take-downs of the underlying data have failed.
Other doxxing content we remove
- Defamatory accusations – published alongside identifying details, often presented as “exposing” or “research”
- WHOIS records and old domain registrations – revealing home addresses tied to dormant or sold domains
- Wayback Machine and Internet Archive snapshots – preserving content the original publisher has already removed
- YouTube videos and channels built around exposing or attacking an individual
- Twitter / X posts containing private information – addressed via Notice of Objection procedures
- LinkedIn profiles aggregating professional and personal data for harassment purposes
- Companies House listings that expose service addresses or director home addresses
- Fake profiles, fake porn sites and fake criminal associations created in your name
- Family information – partner’s name, children’s names, school details, relatives’ addresses
If the doxxing content you want removed is not on this list, tell us about it in the assessment form. If there is a legal route to removal, we will find it.
Who comes to us about doxxing?
Every doxxing case has its own story. Here are the situations we see most often – and where we have the strongest track record of getting the content down.
Your home address has been published online
Someone has posted your home address on a forum, social media, a YouTube video, or a harassment platform – sometimes alongside a call for others to act. This is a clear safety risk. We act fast: take the content down at source, delist it from search engines, and pursue Companies House service-address changes and data broker removals to stop the address resurfacing.
A YouTube channel is built around exposing you
A channel has been set up to attack you – videos containing your address, family details and unfounded accusations. The audience is being directed at you. We have shut down entire channels in cases like this, using a combination of UK data protection law, platform community guidelines, and where necessary court action. The faster you act, the cleaner the removal.
Your business history is being weaponised
Old company filings, dissolved companies, a director disqualification from years ago, or a legitimate business decision being framed as “evidence” against you – combined with your current contact details and aimed at clients, employers or investors. We approach these as data aggregation cases: each strand may be public, but the combined profile is not.
Defamatory accusations alongside personal details
Someone has published serious accusations – fraud, abuse, criminal conduct, professional misconduct – together with your name, address and photograph. This is doxxing and defamation in the same act. We handle both legal angles in parallel: removing the personal data on data protection grounds while building the defamation case to deal with the underlying allegation.
WHOIS records are exposing your address
An old domain you registered years ago still carries your home address in WHOIS lookups. The domain may even have been sold on. Doxxers mine WHOIS databases to locate targets. We pursue removal directly with WHOIS database operators and registrars, and where that fails we delist the lookup pages from Google.
Your family has been pulled into it
Your partner’s name, your children’s names, your relatives’ addresses – published to extend the harassment to people who never asked to be involved. Where children are concerned, we treat the case with absolute urgency and use every available legal route, including the Online Safety Act 2023 and applications for injunctive relief.
Wayback Machine is preserving content already removed
You succeeded in removing the original page – but the Wayback Machine has archived it and the doxxer keeps linking to the snapshot. We have removed Wayback Machine archives by combining data protection grounds with copyright claims where the underlying content is yours, and with formal complaints where it is not.
You are a UK citizen abroad – or the content is overseas
UK GDPR has extraterritorial scope. If you are a UK citizen targeted from overseas, or the doxxing content is hosted abroad but visible to a UK audience, we can still pursue removal under UK law. We also work with a specialist network of attorneys in the United States and Canada for cases where local action moves faster.
Why we succeed where doxxing take-downs have failed
Many of our clients come to us after the platform’s own reporting tools have not worked, after a content removal company has run out of options, or after they have spent months chasing the doxxer themselves. The doxxing cases that reach us tend to be the ones where the obvious approach was not enough. That is where 25 years of specialist experience makes the difference.
We have legal leverage the platforms recognise
As qualified solicitors, we send letters that carry genuine legal consequence. We can issue court proceedings. We can make formal ICO complaints that are taken seriously because they come from a regulated law firm with a track record. That leverage changes the dynamic of every conversation with a platform – and it is the single biggest reason solicitors get doxxing content removed when others cannot.
We use the data aggregation argument
Doxxing is rarely about one piece of unlawful content. It is about the combination – bits of public data assembled into something that should not exist. Many lawyers and almost all removal companies miss this. We routinely argue that the combined profile is itself a new, unlawful piece of personal data – and that argument unlocks removals where individual take-down requests have failed.
We do not stop at the first refusal
Most firms treat a platform’s “no” as the end of the road. We treat it as the beginning of the next argument. We revisit the case, look for new angles, escalate to the platform’s legal team, file ICO complaints, pursue court orders – and we keep going until the content is down or we have exhausted every realistic option.
Our relationships open doors
We know the in-house legal teams at the major platforms. We work with a specialist network of attorneys in the United States and Canada who act for some of the most prominent platforms and know how those companies operate from the inside. A single well-placed call has, in some cases, resulted in the removal of scores of doxxing posts – quickly, and without litigation.
The doxxing cases we are proudest of are the ones that looked impossible on paper and were solved by an unexpected route.
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25+ years’ experience in online content removal – Cohen Davis Solicitors
| Cohen Davis Solicitors | Content removal company | |
|---|---|---|
| SRA regulated | ✓ | ✗ |
| Legal professional privilege | ✓ | ✗ |
| Strategic advice on the right legal route for your specific doxxing case | ✓ | ✗ |
| Legal leverage – ability to credibly threaten and pursue proceedings | ✓ | ✗ |
| Online Safety Act 2023 expertise | ✓ | ✗ |
| Able to issue court proceedings against publishers, platforms or doxxers | ✓ | ✗ |
| Direct contacts with platform legal teams and major publishers | ✓ | ✗ |
| Experience with complex, multi-jurisdictional doxxing cases | ✓ | Limited |
| Fixed fees quoted in writing before work starts | ✓ | Varies |
| 25+ years’ specialist online content removal experience | ✓ | ✗ |
A content removal company can submit a take-down request. A solicitor can do that, and escalate when the first attempt fails – which, in the doxxing cases that actually matter, it usually does.
The right argument, at the right time, to the right person
Doxxing removal is not a template exercise. It is strategic thinking – reading the specific content, the platform, the publisher, the legal climate – and finding the angle others missed. That is what 25 years of this work gives you: not just the law, but the judgement to know which argument to put, to which person, at which moment.
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Ms J.J – New York, United States
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“The result has been fantastic and the best I could have hoped for. I was very distressed by the situation I found myself in and Cohen Davis were brilliant.”
Dr B.Y – Bradford
Frequently asked questions about removing doxxing content
Is doxxing illegal in the UK?
Yes. Doxxing – the deliberate publication of someone’s private personal information to expose, harass or harm them – breaches UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. Where the content also creates a risk of physical harm or harassment, the Online Safety Act 2023 and the common law tort of misuse of private information also apply. In serious cases, criminal harassment offences may be in play. We can pursue every available legal route in parallel.
How quickly can you remove doxxing content?
It depends on the platform and the legal route – but doxxing cases are some of the fastest removals we handle, because the legal arguments are strong and the platforms recognise the safety risk. We have removed urgent doxxing content within 24 hours of being instructed. Even where the platform initially refuses, escalation through the legal route typically resolves the case in weeks, not months.
What if the doxxing content is on multiple platforms at once?
That is the norm in serious doxxing cases. We map every location of the content across platforms, search engines, archive sites and data brokers, then prioritise by risk and by likelihood of fast removal. Working all fronts in parallel stops the doxxer from simply re-posting elsewhere as fast as we take content down.
Can you remove a YouTube channel that has been built to harass me?
Yes. We have shut down entire YouTube channels in cases where the channel was created specifically to expose, harass or defame an individual. We use a combination of UK data protection law, YouTube’s own community standards, and where necessary court action and complaints to senior YouTube legal contacts.
Can you remove tweets or X posts containing my private information?
Yes. X / Twitter responds to formal Notice of Objection procedures filed under UK GDPR. Where the post combines private information with defamatory accusations, we run the data protection and defamation arguments together. In urgent cases we also pursue interim injunctive relief.
Can you remove fake porn websites or fake criminal associations created in my name?
Yes. Fake content created in someone’s name – whether sexual, criminal or otherwise – is unlawful on multiple grounds, including data protection, privacy, defamation, and where applicable the Online Safety Act and intimate image offences. We pursue removal at the host, the platform and the search engines, and where the perpetrator can be identified we consider proceedings against them directly.
Will my enquiry be kept confidential?
Yes, absolutely. Your enquiry is protected by legal professional privilege from the moment you first contact us. We will never share your details, discuss your situation with third parties, or refer to your case publicly without your explicit permission.
If the information is technically public, why is publishing it as doxxing unlawful?
Because aggregation creates new personal data. A Companies House filing on its own, a WHOIS record on its own, an electoral roll entry on its own – each may be lawfully public for a specific purpose. But combining them into a profile designed to identify, locate and target you creates a fresh piece of personal data that has no lawful basis. UK GDPR treats this as new processing, which means the doxxer needs – and almost never has – a lawful basis to publish it.
Can you remove my home address from WHOIS records of old domains?
Yes. Old WHOIS entries are a common doxxing source – the address you used when you registered a domain ten years ago is often still visible. We pursue removal through WHOIS database operators, registrars and the domain registry itself. In parallel we delist the lookup pages from Google so the data does not surface for searchers of your name.
Can the Wayback Machine archive of doxxing content be removed?
Yes, in many cases. The Internet Archive responds to formal removal requests where the content breaches data protection law, where it has been removed at source on legal grounds, or where copyright in the underlying material can be asserted. We have used all three routes successfully to remove archived doxxing content.
I am a UK citizen living abroad – can you still help?
Yes. UK GDPR has extraterritorial scope. As long as you are a UK citizen, or the doxxing content is targeted at a UK audience, we can pursue removal under UK law regardless of where you live now or where the content is hosted. We act for clients across the United States, Canada, Australia, the EU and beyond.
Can you remove doxxing content hosted in the USA or Canada?
Yes. We work with a dedicated specialist network of attorneys in the United States and Canada, many of whom act for some of the most prominent platforms and are deeply familiar with how those platforms operate from the inside. That network gives us routes to removal that a UK-only firm simply does not have. In some cases, a single well-placed call from an attorney with an established platform relationship has resulted in the removal of scores of doxxing posts – quickly and without litigation.
Can you act if I do not know who is doxxing me?
Yes. Most doxxing cases start without a known perpetrator. Removing the content is usually the first priority, and that does not require knowing the doxxer’s identity. Where it becomes important – for example to seek an injunction or pursue damages – we can apply for a Norwich Pharmacal order requiring the platform to disclose subscriber details.
What happens in the free Expert Assessment?
A qualified internet law solicitor calls you. You tell them what has been published, where, and what impact it is having. They assess the legal basis for removal, the likely fastest route, and give you an honest view of your chances. The call takes about 15 minutes. Within 48 hours, you receive a written case review and a fixed-fee quote. No commitment, no pressure.
How much does it cost to remove doxxing content?
Standard cases start from £1,000 + VAT, with a fixed fee quoted in writing before any work starts. Complex cases – multiple platforms, resistant publishers, ICO escalation, court applications or international content – start from £5,000 + VAT. The Expert Assessment itself is completely free.
What if you tell me you cannot help?
We tell you honestly. One of our clients noted: “Refreshingly – for a lawyer – Yair Cohen advised me not to hire him in this instance as it would not be a good investment.” If the doxxing content cannot realistically be removed, or the cost is disproportionate to the result, we say so. That is the kind of firm we are.
What our clients say
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Mr B.G – Nottingham
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“Giving my family, in particular my sons, a more stress free normal life… you have given us our lives back.”
Eric – harassment campaign stopped
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The ICO accepted “most if not all of the very cogent arguments” we put forward.
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“Cohen Davis were exceptionally professional and swift with my case. It was reassuring that they have the experience and knowledge to help me, especially when I live in New York.”
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Honest advice – we tell you if we cannot help
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How it works – three steps
Free 15-minute Expert Assessment
A qualified internet law solicitor reviews the doxxing content, applies the legal tests, and tells you honestly what can be removed, by which route, and how quickly.
Written Case Review and Fixed-Fee Quote
Within 48 hours, you receive a written review of your case and a fixed-fee quote. Valid for 14 days. You decide whether to proceed.
We act – and we persist
If you instruct us, we begin work immediately. Named solicitor, clear communication, and a legal team that does not stop at the first platform refusal.
We are results focused. We do not give up. If the first route to removing the doxxing content fails, we find the next one.
What it costs
- Standard cases – from £1,000 + VAT, fixed fee quoted in writing
- Complex cases – from £5,000 + VAT, scoped and quoted before any work starts
- The Expert Assessment itself is free. No obligation, no pressure.
You will never be charged for anything you haven’t agreed to in writing.
Request your free Expert Assessment
Tell us about the doxxing content you want removed. A solicitor will call you back within one working day. The call is free, confidential, and carries no obligation.
