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EPIC Urges State AGs to Pursue Microsoft Passport
An anonymous submitter sent: "The Electronic Privacy Information Center has sent a letter to all state attorneys general urging them to pursue Microsoft Passport under state consumer protection laws."
It can be done. I managed to get my Passport Account cancelled. It was not easy, but here's how I did it.
Send e-mail to the following address requesting the removal of the passport account and the information associated with it:
passport@css.one.microsoft.com
Be sure to word it strongly or you may not get a response. I ended up getting to the point where I was using curse words and basically spamming this address. I also reported this incident to my local news media (who did nothing. surprise surprise) and informed Microsoft of this.
My big beef on this whole Passport thing was that I was signed up because I am Microsoft Certified. I NEVER requested it, I never checked a box saying I wanted information or anything else from them. So I paid $100 to take a test that allowed MS to harass me.
BTW once you have a response from the above e-mail you will get a number. Be sure to include it in every e-mail you send. Go to the MS support site and start spamming them as well. Eventually they will listen. At least they did for me.
A last note. It did take me a couple weeks to rid myself of the PASSPORT, so be patient and persistent.
Good luck!!!
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