Guide How to remove your info from FastPeopleSearch

FastPeopleSearch will take your listing down, and the whole thing runs on a name and an email address. No ID upload, no phone code, no document of any kind. Their own privacy notice says opt-out requests don't require verification. Two things trip people up: the emailed link dies at 24 hours, and the tracking cookies are a second, separate job. Here's the sequence in order, and what to check on day four.

Suppression, not deletion

The opt-out form stops the sale and sharing of your information, and their page says to allow 3 days for your record to be fully removed from the site. It is not a deletion request. Deletion, access and correction live on a separate, much heavier form at their Privacy Rights page, and doing the easy one doesn't do the other.

Name and email, nothing else

The first form wants first name, last name and an email address. No street address, no phone number, no link to your listing. No ID upload and no document of any kind, and their privacy notice states outright that opt-out requests do not require verification. The deletion form is the opposite, and it wants full address and phone, plus optional date of birth and listing URL.

The 24-hour link is what breaks it

The confirmation email isn't instant. Their wording is that it may take some time to arrive. The link inside it expires 24 hours after it's issued, and clicking it late sends you back to the beginning to redo the name, the email and the captcha. Start this when you've got time to finish it, and watch your spam folder.

Open the form and say who you are

Go to the FastPeopleSearch opt-out form. The first field is a dropdown labeled "I am:" with two choices: the subject of this request, or an authorized agent of the subject. Pick subject if this is your own listing. Picking agent opens three more fields for the agent's first name, last name and email.

Do this by hand, in a real browser. The site sits behind Cloudflare bot protection and the form carries a Cloudflare captcha, so there's no scripted, bulk or automated path through it. If you'd rather not use the form at all, their Do Not Sell notice publishes a phone line at (866) 679-8725.

Give them a name and an email, and stop there

First Name, Last Name and Email address are required. Middle Name is optional. That's the entire first form. It doesn't ask where you live, what your number is, or which page has your listing on it, so don't go hunting for any of that yet.

Tick the authorization box underneath, which certifies you're the subject or an authorized agent, complete the captcha, and click SUBMIT. Use an email address you actually check, because everything from here happens in your inbox and nothing on their side will chase you.

Make the second form match the record

The link opens the real opt-out form, and this is the step where your record actually gets identified. Their instruction is that what you enter should match the information on the record you want removed. Open your listing in another tab and copy what it shows, including the middle name and the old address if that's what's on the page.

They put the warning on the opt-out page in writing: omitting information or providing inaccurate information will only hinder the opt-out process. Under-filling the form to avoid handing over more than you have to gets treated as your mistake, not theirs. Fill it out completely.

Submitting lands you on a confirmation page and sends a confirmation email. Their stated window is the only timeline they publish anywhere: allow 3 days for your record to be fully removed from the site. Keep that email. It's the only receipt you get.

Check on day four, then keep checking

Search your name again on the fourth day and click through to the listing itself, more than the Google result. A search result can outlast the page behind it, and the page coming down is the part they control.

It won't stay down, and they tell you that up front. Their notice says they regularly receive new public records, so even after you opt out your information may appear in their data products again, and they recommend you periodically refresh your opt-out request. There's no permanent suppression list on offer and no case number to quote. Re-checking on a schedule is the whole maintenance plan.

If you want it deleted, that's a different form

Deletion, access and correction live at their Privacy Rights page, under the topic "I want to access, delete, or correct my personal information." It's a much heavier form: street address, city, state, zip and phone number, plus optional date of birth and listing URL, and its own captcha. You're handing over more than the opt-out asked for, to a site that collected your information without asking you first. That page also lists a different phone number, (866) 933-3584.

They identify you by comparing what you type against what they hold, and their stated method is to match two or three of the data points you provide. Authorized agents may be asked for signed authorization, and they keep the right to make you verify directly regardless.

None of it reaches the original source. Their own notice says the opt-out won't remove the data from where it came from, so your information may still appear on other websites or through other services. They also argue that publicly available information isn't covered by state privacy laws and that they apply your request to it as a courtesy. Read that as goodwill they can withdraw. FastPeopleSearch isn't a consumer reporting agency under the FCRA by its own footer either, so the dispute and accuracy rights that work on background-check companies don't attach here.

FastPeopleSearch is one site on a long list

Send the FastPeopleSearch request yourself. It's free, and if that's the only site carrying your address you don't need us. When the same name and address also sit on Whitepages, Spokeo, Radaris and TruePeopleSearch, Personal Information Removal is $399, one time: we work the whole broker network, and twelve months of monitoring catches the listings that come back.

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Written by Drew Chapin, who ran all of this on his own name first.