People search site

A people search site or people finder site is a specialized search engine that searches information from public records, data brokers and other sources to compile reports about individual people, usually for a fee.{{cite web |date=July 2022 |title=What To Know About People Search Sites That Sell Your Information |url=https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/what-know-about-people-search-sites-sell-your-information |access-date=15 November 2023 |website=ftc.gov |publisher=Federal Trade Commission}}{{cite news |last1=Komando |first1=Kim |date=February 19, 2023 |title=Take your privacy back: How to remove your personal data from people search sites |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/komando/2023/02/19/how-remove-your-personal-information-people-search-sites/11258006002/ |access-date=15 November 2023 |work=USA Today}}

Early examples of people search sites included Classmates.com{{Cite web |title=Classmates.com Becomes Probably the First For-Profit Social Networking Site : History of Information |url=https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=1341 |access-date=2024-10-22 |website=www.historyofinformation.com}} and Whitepages.com.{{Cite web |title=A Short History of People Search: How It Has Transformed Over Time |url=https://www.supereasy.com/people-search/a-short-history-of-people-search/}}