Guides · 29 September 2026 · 6 min read

How to Remove Personal Information From FastPeopleSearch

Step-by-step guide to opting out of FastPeopleSearch and removing your name, address and phone number from their listings, plus why records return.

To remove your information from FastPeopleSearch, find your listing on the site, open the opt-out page, submit the removal request for your specific record and confirm it by clicking the link they send to your email. The process is free and takes a few minutes per listing.

Below is the full method, written so you can finish it on this page alone.

Before you start

Two things worth knowing up front.

First, this will not be permanent. FastPeopleSearch, like most people-search sites, rebuilds its records from upstream data feeds. These feeds pull from marketing databases, other brokers and public sources. Even after a successful opt-out, your listing often reappears within a few months as the site refreshes its data. You will need to repeat this periodically.

Second, some of what appears in these listings comes from public records. Court filings, property ownership records, corporate registrations and voter rolls are public by law. You cannot delete the underlying records. You can only ask the broker to stop republishing them in their own profile of you. The record at the source will still exist.

Find your listing first

You cannot opt out of a record you have not located. FastPeopleSearch usually indexes people by name, and you narrow the results by city, state or age.

1. Go to FastPeopleSearch and search your full name.
2. Add your city or state to filter the results.
3. Open the profile that matches you. Check the listed relatives, past addresses and phone numbers to confirm it is you and not someone with the same name.
4. Keep this profile page open. You will need the specific record to opt it out.

If you find more than one profile for yourself, note each one. People-search sites frequently hold several partial records for the same person, and each one needs its own removal request.

The removal steps

1. Look for a removal or opt-out link. It is often in the footer of the site or reachable from the profile page itself. The wording is usually something like "Remove My Record" or "Opt Out".
2. On the opt-out page, you will be asked to identify the exact listing you want removed. If the page asks for a link to your profile, copy the address from the profile you opened earlier and paste it in.
3. Enter an email address where they can send the confirmation. Use an address you can access straight away.
4. Complete any verification step on the page. This may be a checkbox or a simple challenge to prove you are not automated.
5. Submit the request.
6. Open your email. Look for a message from FastPeopleSearch asking you to confirm the removal. Click the confirmation link inside it. The request is not processed until you do this.
7. Check the message is not sitting in your spam or junk folder if it does not arrive within a few minutes.

After you confirm, the listing should be taken down. Removal is not always instant, so give it a little time before you check.

Confirm it worked

Return to FastPeopleSearch a day or two later and search your name again. If the profile you removed no longer appears, the opt-out succeeded. If it is still there, resubmit the request and make sure you complete the email confirmation step.

Do a second search using variations of your name. Try a middle initial, a maiden name or a shortened first name. Brokers sometimes hold separate records under each variation.

Handle the other copies of your data

Removing your FastPeopleSearch listing does nothing to the same data held by other sites. The people-search industry is large, and many sites share upstream sources. If your goal is to reduce how easily someone can find your address and phone number, you will need to opt out of each site that lists you.

A practical way to find them:

• Search your name in quotes along with your city.
• Search your phone number and your current address.
• Note every people-search site that returns a profile of you.
• Work through each one's opt-out process, one at a time.

This is slow but effective. Each site has its own procedure, though most follow the same pattern of locating the listing, requesting removal and confirming by email.

Keep records return in mind

Set a reminder to repeat the check every few months. Because these sites refresh from upstream feeds, a listing you removed in spring may be back by autumn. There is no way around this by design. The only way to keep a listing down is to keep opting out.

If you want to reduce how much new data feeds into these sites in the first place, limit where you share your address and phone number, and opt out of the marketing databases that supply brokers. That will not clear existing listings, but it slows how fast they rebuild.

Doing this at scale

Opting out of one site by hand is manageable. Doing it across dozens of brokers, then repeating the whole cycle every few months, is a chore. Vanish is a Mac app that finds where brokers publish your details and sends CCPA deletion demands on your behalf, then keeps checking as listings return. It automates the repetitive part of the work described above. Whether you use a tool or do it manually, the underlying steps are the same, and the same limits apply: records at their public source cannot be deleted, and listings tend to reappear.