How to Remove Yourself From FastPeopleSearch

Victoria, developer of Reputation Radar · Checked 8 September 2026 against an archived copy of the opt-out page from 19 August 2026, the company's privacy notice from 3 September 2026, and California's data broker register. We did not submit the live form: the site blocks automated checks and we do not work around blocks.

FastPeopleSearch lists your name, age, addresses, phone numbers and relatives on a page anyone can open, and it runs a free opt-out. Unlike some brokers, the current version of its opt-out page is readable in the archive, so most of what follows is in the company's own words, with the date each thing was seen.

Opt-out contact

Opt-out page: fastpeoplesearch.com/optout
Email: privacy@mtalley.zendesk.com: the registered privacy contact for Mississippi Tornado Alley, LLC, the operator.
Cost: Free.
Evidence: archived copies of the opt-out page and the privacy notice, plus California's data broker register. The live form was not submitted.

Where the opt-out lives

The opt-out page is fastpeoplesearch.com/optout. Older guides point to /removal; a 25 April 2026 archive capture shows that address redirecting to /optout, and later captures through August do the same, so use /optout. It is also linked from the "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link in the site footer, as shown in the privacy notice archived on 3 September 2026.

Open it in a normal browser. Our automated checks received an HTTP 403 response from that page, so we did not complete it ourselves.

The same privacy notice lists a phone line for opting out of the sale or sharing of your information: (866) 679-8725. In the notice's own words that is an opt-out channel, not a promise of phone-based record removal. If you use it, ask whether it can process a record removal.

What the form asks, in its own words

From the copy of the opt-out page archived on 19 August 2026:

"Enter your email address and name and complete the captcha below. We will send a link to your email address that will take you to the opt-out form. Click the link sent to your email. It may take some time to arrive. If you wait more than 24 hours to click this link you will need to request a new one."

So the flow is two steps. The first screen takes your name, your email, a captcha, and a choice between "The subject of this request" and "An authorized agent of the subject of the request". You tick a box certifying that you are the subject or an agent authorized to act for them. The real form arrives by email, and the link expires after 24 hours.

The second form has to match the listing. The page says: "Enter your information on the form. This should match the information on the record you want removed." And it warns that "omitting information or providing inaccurate information on the opt-out form will only hinder the opt-out process." Decide before you start how much you are willing to give a data broker to get out of a data broker, because the form asks for it after you have already begun.

What you get back: a confirmation page and a confirmation email. On timing, the page says, "Please allow 3 days for your record to be fully removed from our site."

If you are acting for someone else, the page notes that the agent's email address is where the form link is sent. That route needs real authorization from the person whose record it is.

What the company's own filing says about the odds

FastPeopleSearch's privacy notice does not name an operating legal entity. California's 2026 data broker register identifies FastPeopleSearch.com as one of ten sites registered by Mississippi Tornado Alley, LLC. That filing also reports the company's 2024 numbers across those sites: 1,204,017 opt-out requests received, 993,412 complied with in whole, and 207,021 denied, with a median response time of one day. That is about 17 percent denied, roughly one request in six. The filing gives no reason.

If yours is one of the denied ones, the registered privacy contact in that filing is privacy@mtalley.zendesk.com.

Which sites one request covers

This is where FastPeopleSearch differs from most brokers, and it cuts both ways.

One request may cover the whole family. The same ten-site registrant runs SearchPeopleFree, CyberBackgroundChecks, SmartBackgroundChecks, USA-People-Search, USPhoneBook, AdvancedBackgroundChecks, FastBackgroundCheck, PeopleSearchNow and Phonebooks. Its filing says that for opt-out-of-sale requests, a request submitted through any of these sites "will apply across all sites". The filing does not expressly promise that every public listing comes down on every domain, so search yourself on the sister sites you care about after the three days.

It does not cover TruePeopleSearch. That site looks like a sibling and shares a page template, but the register lists it under a different company, Free Data Services, LLC. It needs its own request, and it is harder to check on; we wrote up what is known about TruePeopleSearch's form separately.

Cookie opt-outs stay per site. The same filing says that to opt out of collection happening through the website itself, such as cookies, you do that on each site separately.

If you live in California, the state's DROP platform sends one deletion request that every registered broker has to process. Consumers could submit from 1 January 2026, brokers had to begin processing on 1 August 2026, a status can take up to 90 days, and brokers must re-check against DROP at least every 45 days. Both companies named above are on the register.

What removal does and does not do

It is a three-day claim, not a promise. Check your own listing after that, rather than assuming.

It does not last on its own, and the company says so. Its privacy notice says its products use "publicly available information, which is not covered by U.S. state privacy laws," that it "will try to apply your request to the publicly available information we collect, as a courtesy," and that because it regularly receives new public records, "even if you opt out, your publicly available information may appear in our Data Products again in the future." Its own recommendation is to "periodically refresh your opt-out request." Take that at face value: a new property record, a court filing or a change of address can put you back. For publicly available information, the notice says it will try to apply an eligible opt-out as a courtesy. For other personal information it holds, the same notice says your rights depend on your state of residence. DROP is built to keep working, because of the 45-day re-check, but it is not a guaranteed takedown of every public listing either: data that is publicly available or otherwise exempt can remain.

It covers this site's public page, not the wider trade. The archived opt-out page promotes "our partner EnformionGO's Fast Developer API for Contact Enrichment, Sales and Marketing Intelligence." The opt-out is described as covering your record on this site; it says nothing about that partner's products.

It does not touch Google's copy. If a removed page still shows in search results, Google has retired its public cache, so the tool to use is Refresh Outdated Content.

For the full map of which sites to hit and in what order, see the people-search removal guide. The walkthroughs for Spokeo, Whitepages and BeenVerified were each checked against their live pages.

If you would rather see where your name actually appears before doing the rounds, the Personal Exposure Snapshot checks people-search sites among 20+ surfaces for $49, and prints a coverage map of what it could not reach.

General information, not legal advice. Checked 8 September 2026 against the sources linked above. Quoted wording is from the archived copies named beside it and may have changed since.