AllPeople.com is a slightly different animal from the rest of the people-search pack: it's a business-contact directory, "the largest free directory of business contacts for America," by its own billing. It lists professionals with their names, job titles, companies, work emails, phone numbers, and addresses.
The business framing makes it feel more legitimate, but the privacy math is the same: your name, employer, contact details, and location, indexed and free for anyone, recruiters, sure, but also scammers running B2B phishing, social engineers building pretexts, and anyone connecting your professional identity to your personal one. The removal is quick and built into the profile page itself.
Heads up (October 18, 2026): AllPeople's site turned away our automated check, so we could not re-check the steps below. If what you see differs, follow the site.
What is AllPeople?
AllPeople aggregates business and professional contact data into free profiles:
- Full name and job title
- Company and industry
- Business email addresses and phone numbers
- Business (and sometimes home-adjacent) addresses
Profiles frequently outlive jobs, listings tied to employers you left years ago are common, and stale professional data is its own problem when someone uses it to impersonate or locate you.
Before you start
- No email verification gauntlet here (the removal is a link on your own profile) but have a reason ready to select and a minute for the CAPTCHA.
- Search name + past employers too; old positions often have their own listings.
How to remove yourself from AllPeople, step by step
Step 1: Find your profile
At allpeople.com, search your name (optionally with company, industry, or city/state). Identify every profile that's you, including ones at former employers.
Step 2: Open the profile
Click the "Details" button under your name to open the full profile.
Step 3: Click "Remove"
Find the "Remove" link in the upper-right area of your profile page.
Step 4: Complete the removal
Select the reason you want the profile removed, complete the CAPTCHA, and click "Submit."
Step 5: Repeat for every profile
Each listing (current employer, old employers, misspellings) gets its own removal.
If the on-page removal fails
AllPeople has operated an email contact at webmaster@allpeople.com. Send the profile URL(s) and a plain removal request, and keep the thread.
How long does removal take?
Removals are often processed within about 24 hours, though the site doesn't commit to a firm window, re-check within a few days.
Verify the removal
A couple of days later, search yourself again in a private window, name alone, then name plus each employer. Google your name site:allpeople.com to catch cached leftovers, which clear on their own within weeks (or faster via Google's Refresh Outdated Content tool).
Why your listing can come back
Business-contact data refreshes from company registries, marketing databases, and web scraping. A new job, a new company filing, or a refreshed B2B dataset can rebuild a profile, often with a new URL your old removal never touched.
Defynta's Web Watcher can watch it for you. Silver subscribers can turn on monitoring, which rescans AllPeople and the other sites we read every 30 days by default and emails you when a listing comes back.
Related sites to check next
Your professional footprint and personal footprint feed each other; after AllPeople, sweep the personal side:
- Spokeo, links professional and personal identities
- Whitepages
- MyLife
Full index: the master opt-out list.
Frequently asked questions
Is the AllPeople removal free?
Yes, the Remove link and the email fallback both cost nothing.
I want to be findable professionally. Should I still remove this?
That's a genuine trade-off. If discoverability matters to you, curate instead: keep a profile you control (LinkedIn) and remove directory listings you don't. Directories you can't edit are where stale titles and mixed-up details live.
My listing shows a company I left five years ago. Does that matter?
Yes, stale listings enable impersonation ("calling from [old company]") and give social engineers believable material. Remove them along with current ones.
Why is my work email on a public directory?
B2B data brokers compile contact lists from registries, websites, and purchased marketing data, then republish them as "directories." No consent step ever happened, which is why the removal exists.
*Your work identity is data too. See how your professional and personal footprints connect (and where they're exposed) with a free Defynta scan.*
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