How to remove yourself from Whitepages
Whitepages is one of the largest US people-search sites, listing names, ages, addresses, phone numbers, and relatives compiled from public records and other data brokers.
Open Whitepages’s opt-out page →Opens on their site. Come back here for the steps.
- Holder
- Whitepages
- How you come off
- Find your listing firstyou submit it
- They may ask for
- Nothing beyond the name and address they already hold.
- Legal deadline
- 45 days · CCPA and equivalent state acts
- Re-lists
- No — once it is off, it stays off.
- Time it takes
- 10 minutes (phone verification required)
- Difficulty
- Medium
What Whitepages holds about you
- Full name
- Age
- Current and past addresses
- Phone numbers
- Relatives
How to get removed
- Search your name on whitepages.com and open your listing.
- Copy the listing URL, then go to the suppression-requests page and paste it.
- Give a reason and your contact details, then submit.
- Complete the automated phone-call verification if prompted.
May require a phone call to confirm.
Whitepages verifies removals with an automated phone call and won't process the request without it. Each listing must be removed separately.
Why you come back
This one does not re-acquire, so a completed removal holds. Most do not: the holders that buy public records re-buy them about every four months, which is why the rest of this register is re-checked rather than ticked off.
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