If you already have a hotmail account, you have been "volunteered" into sharing your Email Address, Birth Date, Country/Region, State, ZIP Code, Gender, Accessibility (I assume that means whether or not you are in some way differently abled), Time Zone, and Occupation with Microsoft business partners.
Even if you have selected available option not to publish your information in the Hotmail Member Directory, Microsoft has been sharing your personal information with its marketing and business partners.
Kind of makes you wonder. If you've specifically told Microsoft not to share your email address and other information with people who have a Hotmail account. Why, then, would you want Hotmail to share your private information with people who don't?
Microsoft has now graciously given existing Hotmail users the ability to opt out of any sharing of this information.
If you do not wish to share your personal information with .NET sites or Microsoft business/marketing partners, you may change these settings by following these instructions:
Sign in to Hotmail.
Go to the Options page. The Options link is located directly to the right of the Address Book tab.
Click on Personal Profile. The Personal Profile link is the first link on the left side of the Options page, under the heading Your Information. You may need to scroll down once you see the form.
At the bottom of the page, there are three check boxes: two of which will be checked.
UNCHECK the box next to Share my e-mail address, then
UNCHECK the box next to Share my other registration information. The box next to Share my first and last name should not be checked.
When you are done and all three checkboxes are clear of any marks, click UPDATE.
You will need to click CONTINUE on the next page.
For these changes to actually take effect, you must SIGN OUT. The SIGN OUT button is in the top right corner of the hotmail Options page and looks like this:
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