PeopleByName Opt Out & Remove Your Info

PeopleByName is a data broker website that specializes in providing people search and reverse phone lookup services. The site boasts of giving its users access to over 600,000,000 names and 1,379,043,021 records. Even though these records contain public information from public sources, they can put you in real danger.

Scammers can use this information to target you with annoying robocalls and spam emails, stalkers can use it to track you down, and cybercriminals can combine it with other information they collect on the internet and elsewhere to steal your identity.

Luckily, you can opt out of PeopleByName simply by filling out a removal form. Our step-by-step guide will help you get this done in as little as five minutes. Doing so is a great way to begin protecting your online privacy, but it’s only a beginning.

Federico Morelli

Opt-out process: 5 – 10 minutes

Removal Requirements: Email

Updated: December 20, 2022

How to opt out of PeopleByName and remove your info?

In short:

Access the PeopleConnect “suppression center” at https://suppression.peopleconnect.us/login
Verify your email address with PeopleConnect
Check your email for a verification message from PeopleConnect.
Enter your date of birth to find your record
Enter your full name and click “continue.”
Select your record
Confirm your suppression request

Keep reading for the full opt out procedure with screenshots.

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Step-by-step PeopleByName opt-out guide

Total Time: 5 minutes

Click on the first letter of your surname and then name to identify your listing at http://www.peoplebyname.com/people/

Go to the PeopleByName people directory at http://www.peoplebyname.com/people/ and click on the first letter of your surname, then on your first name on the following screen.

Alternatively, go to http://www.peoplebyname.com/ and enter your phone number.

If you know they have your phone number it may be faster to look for the number instead.

Copy your record ID

Find your record and copy the record ID. There’s no need to open your record, the record ID should be visible in the top-right corner.

Fill in the removal form, solve the CAPTCHA, and click “Request removal”

Go to https://www.peoplebyname.com/remove.php and fill in your full name and email address. Paste the record ID you copied in the previous step. Enter a reason for removal—it doesn’t matter what you write here, we recommend “privacy concerns.”

Complete the “I’m not a robot” CAPTCHA and click on “request removal.”

TIP: Use a throwaway or masked email address to avoid giving additional information to this data broker. If you don’t have one yet, we reviewed disposable email services in this article.

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4. Continue your data removal journey

With that, you’re done with this removal process! Your Personally Identifiable Information should be gone from PeopleByName within 24 hours. Check back in a day or two to make sure it really has been removed.

Check back again in a few months to make sure your personal information hasn’t reappeared on the site. Restart the removal process and submit a new request removal if it has. This is a problem with most data brokers—records tend to respawn over time.

The other major problem with data brokers? There are hundreds of them operating in the US alone. Submitting removal requests to all the data broker and people search sites that have your personal information is practically impossible, unless you have 300+ hours to spare every three months or so.

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