Guides · updated 2026-08-27
How do I remove myself from TruePeopleSearch?
Find your own listing on the site first and copy its address, then use their removal page and confirm through the link they email you. The site is operated by Free Data Services, LLC, it is registered as a data broker in California, and we hold a verified privacy contact for it. Expect to repeat this: the site rebuilds from public records, so a removal is not permanent unless a state suppression right applies to you.
The steps
Find your listing. Copy its address. Submit it on their removal page with an email address you can read. Click the link they send. That last step is where most attempts stall, because the confirmation lands in a filtered inbox and nobody opens it.
Do the rest of the shelf while you are at it
The same pattern clears most people-search sites, and the aggregators are worth doing first because the smaller sites rebuild from them. We track 503 sources in total. The pattern, site by site.
Make it stick
In California, the state request obliges every registered broker to keep honouring your deletion rather than to delete you once, and this site is registered. The California route.
Common questions
- What is the fastest route?
- Search the site for yourself, open your own listing, and copy its address. Their removal page asks for that address, then emails you a confirmation link. Nothing happens until you click it, so use an address you can actually read.
- Who runs the site?
- Free Data Services, LLC. It is registered as a data broker in California, which is checkable on the state register rather than something you have to take on trust.
- Is there an email route?
- Yes. We hold privacy@truepeoplesearch.com as the published privacy contact, verified against the site on 24 August 2026. Write to it if the form fails or if you want the request in writing.
- How long does removal take?
- Usually days rather than weeks once the confirmation link is clicked. If the listing is still there after a week, send the same request again and keep the confirmation.
- Why has my listing come back?
- Because the site rebuilds from public records and from other brokers. Outside a state that imposes a suppression obligation, an opt-out removes the record you pointed at, not the sources behind it. Re-check every three months.
- Do I have to give them anything to be removed?
- Only your listing address and an email address. Do not send identity documents to a people-search site. Nothing about this route requires them.
Sources
- California Privacy Protection Agency registry, Free Data Services, LLC · read 24 August 2026
- Our own directory entry, including the privacy contact we verified · read 24 August 2026
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