PrivateEye.com is one of the older names in people search, and most guides you'll find for it still describe an on-site opt-out form where you enter your name, city, and state. That form no longer exists. The site has been rebuilt as a search front-end: run a name or reverse-phone search on privateeye.com today and you're handed off to PeopleFinders' results pages — PrivateEye doesn't display its own listings anymore. That's actually good news for removal, because it means there's exactly one opt-out to file, and it's PeopleFinders' free form. Here's the current flow, verified in August 2026.
Confirm where your listing actually lives
Go to privateeye.com and run a search on your name from the homepage search box — the "Find People" page headed "Locate Anyone with Free People Search," with First Name, Last Name, and optional City/State fields. Watch the address bar when you submit: you'll leave privateeye.com and land on a peoplefinders.com results page. That's the record PrivateEye's search surfaces, so that's the record you need removed. Note the details on the listing that matches you — age, cities, possible relatives — so you can pick out the right one in the opt-out tool.
Open the PeopleFinders opt-out page
Navigate directly to peoplefinders.com/opt-out. Don't waste time hunting for a removal form on privateeye.com itself — there isn't one anymore (more on that below). The page is headed "Do Not Sell My Personal Information," and both options on it are free. Click Next under "Right to Opt-out," then search your name inside the tool and select the listing you confirmed in Step 1.
Submit your email for verification
The form asks for your full name and an email address — no account, no fee, no ID upload, and no phone call in the standard online flow. Use an inbox you actually check; the confirmation email in the next step is what makes the request real.
Click the confirmation link
Open the email from PeopleFinders and click the confirmation link inside. It expires 24 hours after it's sent, so don't let it sit — if it lapses, you'll need to restart from Step 2. PeopleFinders states removals take up to three business days once confirmed.
Re-run your PrivateEye search
After the processing window, go back to privateeye.com and search your name again. Because the results are PeopleFinders' results, a completed PeopleFinders opt-out is what makes the PrivateEye search come back clean. If a different listing surfaces — a maiden name, a nickname, an old address — repeat the opt-out for that record too.
Why older PrivateEye guides no longer work
The opt-out URL that most third-party guides still cite — privateeye.com/static/view/optout/ — now redirects to privateeye.com/removal, and that page renders a 404 inside the rebuilt site. The other legacy paths (/optout, /do-not-sell) redirect to the same dead end, and the current site's footer "Privacy Policy" and "Terms" links don't lead anywhere at all. In short: there is no working on-site opt-out at privateeye.com as of August 2026, and any guide walking you through one is describing a site that's gone.
The PeopleFinders connection isn't new, just more total than it used to be. Incogni's 2022 guide already warned that clicking "view details" on a PrivateEye result quietly redirected you to PeopleFinders; today the entire search does. Keep in mind that a PeopleFinders removal covers what PrivateEye's search shows, but not sibling sites with separate databases — USPhonebook, for instance, needs its own opt-out.
Why it's worth checking back
A completed opt-out suppresses the listing that exists today. PeopleFinders — and therefore PrivateEye's search — keeps ingesting fresh public records, so a new address, a new phone number, or a newly digitized filing can generate a new listing weeks or months later. And because PrivateEye's front-end can point anywhere its operators choose, the site's next redesign could just as easily surface a different broker's data. Treat this as a check to revisit, not a one-time errand — ideally as part of a broader cleanup across the people-search sites.
That recurring check is exactly what DelistMyData automates — filing the removal once, then watching for you to reappear on PrivateEye's search, PeopleFinders, and the rest of the people-search sites and re-filing without you having to remember. We're in pre-launch now; join the waitlist for founding-member access as we bring it online.
Sources
- PrivateEye.com — current site, verified 2026-08-26
- PrivateEye: /removal — legacy opt-out paths redirect here; renders a 404
- PeopleFinders: Opt Out
- Incogni: Private Eye Opt Out — 2022 guide documenting the earlier redirect to PeopleFinders