FastPeopleSearch built its reputation on free, no-signup lookups, which is also why it tends to rank high when someone searches your name. Older write-ups describe a one-click "remove this record" link on the listing page itself; that isn't how it works now. Removal today runs through a "Do Not Sell/Right to Opt-out" form that emails you a link to the real opt-out page. It is free and needs no account, but that link has a 24-hour window and there is a second form at the end.
If you want the bigger picture before you file, our FastPeopleSearch.com profile covers what the site is, what a listing shows, and whether it's legit.
Step 1: Find your listing
Search your name at fastpeoplesearch.com, adding a city and state if you know it. Note which listing is actually you; FastPeopleSearch often shows several similarly-named results.
Step 2: Request the opt-out link
Go to fastpeoplesearch.com/removal (it lands on /optout), or reach the same page from the footer's "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link. The page is headed "Do Not Sell/Right to Opt-out." Set the "I am" dropdown to "The subject of this request" (or "An authorized agent of the subject of the request"), fill in First Name, Last Name (middle name is optional) and your email address, tick the authorization checkbox, complete the CAPTCHA, and hit SUBMIT.
You aren't removing anything yet. This step only asks FastPeopleSearch to email you a link to the actual opt-out form.
Step 3: Click the emailed link within 24 hours
The message can take a while to arrive, so check spam. FastPeopleSearch states plainly: "If you wait more than 24 hours to click this link you will need to request a new one." If it lapses, just redo Step 2.
Step 4: Fill in the opt-out form
The emailed link opens the real removal form. Enter your details so they match the record you want removed, because that matching is how the site locates your listing, which is why looking yourself up in Step 1 pays off. Their warning is worth heeding: "Omitting information or providing inaccurate information on the opt-out form will only hinder the opt-out process."
Step 5: Confirmation, then wait 3 days
You'll be taken to a confirmation page and receive a confirmation email. FastPeopleSearch asks you to "allow 3 days for your record to be fully removed" from the site. Re-search your name after that to confirm, and resubmit if the listing is still up well past the window.
A quirk worth knowing about
FastPeopleSearch's removal page is framed as a "Do Not Sell/Right to Opt-out" request, the language of state consumer-privacy statutes, but the form itself asks nothing about where you live and gates nothing on residency. In practice requests go through regardless of your state.
The more useful thing to know is that this exact flow (name and email first, a link that expires in 24 hours, a match-your-record form, then "allow 3 days") is word-for-word identical on TruePeopleSearch, SearchPeopleFree, CyberBackgroundChecks, USPhonebook and AdvancedBackgroundChecks. That shared boilerplate points to a common platform behind them, and FastPeopleSearch's own footer promotes a partner API (EnformionGO). Once you have done this one, the rest will feel familiar.
Does one request cover the sister sites?
The company says yes; its websites say nothing. California's data broker registry lists FastPeopleSearch as one of ten trade names of Mississippi Tornado Alley, LLC of Sacramento, alongside CyberBackgroundChecks, FastBackgroundCheck, SearchPeopleFree, PeopleSearchNow, SmartBackgroundChecks, AdvancedBackgroundChecks, USA-People-Search, USPhonebook and Phonebooks.com. In the comments field of that same 2024 filing, the company told the state: "Consumers may exercise their right to opt out of the sale of certain personal information by submitting a request on any of these sites, which will apply across all sites." The filing carves out one exception, cookie-level tracking, where "consumers should opt out separately on each website."
That is a stronger promise than anything the sites make to you directly. FastPeopleSearch's opt-out page, privacy notice and notice at collection never mention a sibling site, and each of the ten serves its own copy of the same form. A statement to a regulator is also not the same thing as observed behaviour: a removal leaves no receipt you can check, so from the outside there is no way to watch a suppression propagate from one site to the next, and we have not been able to confirm that it does.
So file here, and treat the cross-site coverage as unproven rather than as a reason to skip the others. Re-search your name on the sisters a few days later and file again on any that still list you. If the claim holds, those forms take a minute each and come back empty.
Why it's worth checking back
Like other aggregators, FastPeopleSearch rebuilds its listings from public records and commercial data sources on an ongoing basis, so a cleared profile can resurface once new source data comes in. A single request handles what's live today, not what gets added next month.
That's the recurring check Delist My Data is built to automate — filing the removal once, then watching FastPeopleSearch and the rest of the people-search sites for you to reappear, and filing it again without you having to remember. We're in pre-launch now; join the waitlist for founding-member access as we bring it online.
Sources
- FastPeopleSearch: Removal
- FastPeopleSearch: Notice at Collection
- California Privacy Protection Agency: Data Broker Registry — Mississippi Tornado Alley, LLC registration