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Years ago a marketer used some of my website info to set up a blog for my practice. It went live without my knowledge. I need to have the blog removed for a variety of reasons but since I didn't set it up I don't have access to the dashboard and can't remove this blog. The marketer has long since disappeared. How can this blog be removed?
Thanks,
Barbara
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blog is barbarapaulblume.wordpress.com
Please see what Staff (macmanx) said here:
We'll need you to prove ownership of the account before we can take any account, and the only things that we can accept for that would be either an email from the email address the account is registered to or confirmation of the account's API key. http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/email-address-doesnt-exist-any-more?replies=12#post-856721
Thanks for the reply, To what address would I send the email?
Hi again,
Blogs at WordPress.com are the property of the users who register them. The ownership can be transferred to another user, but that transfer needs to be done or requested by the current owner. The e-mail address registered with the WordPress.com sername account is the unique identifier, as is the API key.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/email-address/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/api-keys/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account
I'll flag this thread for a Staff response.
This has legal ramifications as someone posted personally protected information on a comment about 4 or 5 years ago. As the blog itself was not authorized by me but was a marketing attempt from an IT consultant that went live without my knowledge I need to remove the comment and close the blog. Don't want anyone caught up in a legal quagmire.
Blogs are the property of the users who register them, and without hearing from that user, we can't take any action.
However, the personal identifying information may be enough to get the blog shut down.
Please contact our Abuse department via http://en.wordpress.com/abuse/
Dear Macmanx:
Thanks for the direction. I submitted an abuse complaint based upon the posted comment violating Federal HIPAA regulations.
Definitely looks like a HIPAA violation there.
This problem is not resolved until the comment is removed or the blog is deleted.
Our abuse team will reply via email as soon as they can.
Still up and in violation of HIPAA regulations.
The blog was suspended on April 19th. Please try clearing your browser's cache.
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barbarablume
