Jim Shreve, partner in Troutman Pepper Locke’s Privacy + Cyber Practice Group , was quoted in the September 11, 2025 HousingWire article, “Trump’s Attempts to Fire Lisa Cook Expose Mortgage Data Privacy Concerns.”

  • “It’s not an easy, simple idea about what’s public and not public relating to land ownership or mortgages, because there’s no federal standard for this,” said James Shreve, a partner at Troutman Pepper Locke specializing in data privacy, noting that some jurisdictions still list Social Security numbers in filings. 
  • “Fannie and Freddie operate in a bit of a gray area, because usually there are privacy laws that apply to government entities and to private entities — and Fannie and Freddie are kind of between,” Shreve said. 
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