How to remove your information from Whitepages, Inc
Full name, current and past home addresses, landline and mobile numbers, age, and named relatives — usually the first result when someone searches your name.
- Website
- whitepages.com
- Removal method
- Web form + email confirmation
- Typical time
- 1–3 days
- Based in
- Seattle, WA
Don’t want to do it yourself?
We file this removal for you, prove it worked with a screenshot and a timestamp, then re-check it every 45 days and refile if Whitepages, Inc puts you back.
Plans from $4.99/month. No card for the scan.
Remove yourself from Whitepages, Inc in 6 steps
These are the complete instructions. You do not need us to do this — we publish them so you can check our work, or skip us entirely.
- 01Search your name and location on whitepages.com and open your own listing.
- 02Copy the full URL of that listing from the address bar.
- 03Go to whitepages.com/suppression-requests and paste the URL in.
- 04Enter an email address you can access, and complete the verification step.
- 05Whitepages will call or text the phone number on the listing with a confirmation code. You must complete this — the request is discarded without it.
- 06Enter the code. The listing is normally suppressed within a few days.
Opt-out page https://www.whitepages.com/suppression-requests
Verified 2026-09-28.
- The phone verification step is the one most people abandon, and it is mandatory.
- Whitepages Premium and the paid background-report product are separate — suppressing the free listing does not always remove the paid one.
- New listings can be generated later from fresh data purchases, so this needs re-checking.
What Whitepages, Inc tells the state it does with your data
Every data broker operating in California must file an annual registration under the Delete Act. These are that broker's own answers.
Whitepages, Inc reported collecting none of the sensitive categories the state asks about. It still holds ordinary identifying data — name, address, phone, email — which is what makes you findable.
Whitepages, Inc reported no sales or sharing in the categories the state asks about.
Source: California Data Broker Registry, 2026 filing. Figures are as reported by the broker.
Rights page they filed with the state https://www.whitepages.com/privacy; https://www.whitepages.com/privacy/consumer-rights
Privacy contact on file legal@whitepages.com
Our route for Whitepages, Inc
We file the strongest instrument available for your state, not whichever form is easiest.
- California residentsA DROP filing through the state platform. Whitepages, Inc is legally required to check it every 45 days and delete you — no form, no confirmation email, no discretion.
- The other 19 states with privacy lawsA statutory deletion demand citing your state's own act, with the response deadline stated on its face.
- EveryoneThe opt-out flow above, including the confirmation step, handled end to end.
- Then, foreverRe-verification at 7, 30 and 90 days, then every 45 days. If your listing reappears, we refile and tell you.
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