How To Get Off of People Search Sites Like Pipl, Spokeo, and WhitePages

On January 2, 2018 I posted a list of links where you can request removal of your information from people search databases. At the end of January I added an update with additional opt-out links.

Now Motherboard has also published a Long List of Data Broker Sites and How to Opt-Out of Them.

Data broker sites gather information from public records, purchase information such as subscription lists, or scrape data from sites like LinkedIn. They then make portions of this data available on their web-sites for free, and sell more detailed reports for a few dollars.

By using people search sites it is often fairly easy to find the current address and telephone number of someone, and often further details about that person, like family members and work address.

While it is very difficult to remove 100% of your personal information from these data brokers, I do recommend that you opt-out whenever possible. The fewer places your personal information appears in a publicly viewable data base the better.