How FreePeopleDirectory Collects, Sells, and Shares Your Personal Information
What is FreePeopleDirectory?
FreePeopleDirectory is a U.S.-based people‑search directory that aggregates publicly available records — including phone indexes, property records, email databases, and other consumer data — and makes them searchable by name, address, or phone number. Anyone can search anonymously, which means that individuals’ personal information may become publicly exposed without their consent.
URL
freepeopledirectory.com
Support
freepeopledirectory.com/optout
Type of Data Broker
People Search
Aggression level
High
What FreePeopleDirectory collects and how your privacy is at risk
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This company is listed in our Top 100 Most Aggressive Data Sellers based on sensitivity and reach.
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Collects and sells basic details like your name, address, phone number, and email address.
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Collects and shares information about your family members, relationships, and household makeup.
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The company’s practices pose a heightened risk for identity theft, scams, discrimination, and profiling.
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Tracks your browsing habits, online searches, shopping behaviors, and content preferences.
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Tracks and sells your location history, movements, and device-based geolocation data.
The risks shown are based on the types of personal data this company collects, sells, or shares.
Even limited data collection can expose you to serious privacy threats.
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How to Opt Out and Remove Your Information from FreePeopleDirectory
FreePeopleDirectory provides an opt‑out form accessible via their website. You can request removal by submitting the URL of your profile to that form. However this process can be inconvenient and may require manual verification (e.g. copy‑pasting profile URLs, email confirmation). Even after removal your data may reappear — especially if it exists in public records or other data broker databases.
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FreePeopleDirectory Privacy Risks and How to Remove Your Personal Data
They scrape and aggregate your personal data:
FreePeopleDirectory aggregates data from multiple sources such as phone indexes, property/public records, email databases and other consumer indexes. These data sources may include public records, reverse‑phone lookup databases, property ownership records, and other publicly accessible registries.
They engage in automatic data harvesting:
The site allows simple anonymous searches (by name, address or phone number) and pulls up detailed personal reports. Because the data comes from large consumer indexes and public record databases, it's likely compiled automatically through bulk aggregation of public and semi-public sources.
Opting out is possible, but removal is difficult:
While FreePeopleDirectory offers an opt‑out form, removal is a manual process and may require providing a profile URL and verifying via email. Moreover, because the data comes from broad external sources (public records, consumer indexes), even if a listing is removed, similar data may appear again on FreePeopleDirectory or other brokers. This makes removal difficult to fully guarantee.
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