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Remove yourself from FreePeopleSearch

Estimated time: 10 minutes. Difficulty: easy.

Steps

  1. Go to freepeoplesearch.com, scroll to the footer and click "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" (the page is freepeoplesearch.com/opt-out/). The site runs a bot check first, so keep JavaScript and cookies on. Our tracked link currently lands on the privacy policy — use the footer link instead.
  2. Search for yourself: first and last name, plus city or state to narrow it down. If nothing matches, try a previous city or a name variant.
  3. Open the record that is actually yours — check the addresses and relatives, a namesake is easy to remove by mistake.
  4. Fill in the removal form: first name, last name and an email you can open right now. Solve the CAPTCHA and submit.
  5. Open the email from FreePeopleSearch and click the confirmation button. Without this click nothing happens.
  6. The site quotes 5–7 business days. Search for yourself again after a week to confirm.
Not to be confused with SearchPeopleFree or FastPeopleSearch — different sites, different forms. FreePeopleSearch says plainly that it pulls from public databases it "can't delete", so the listing can come back after a refresh. Keep the confirmation email and re-check every 3–6 months.
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