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Placing a borrower's loan account number on a deed of trust or other mortgage loan documents that are publicly recorded does not violate Federal privacy laws, Federal regulators concluded as this edition of MSN was going to press.
"It is our opinion that such practice falls" within the exceptions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and lenders do not have to give consumers the opportunity to opt-out of such disclosures, according to a letter signed by six Federal regulatory agencies.
"The account number is placed on the mortgage loan document solely for the purpose of facilitating the accurate processing of the document and the document is disclosed to the recording office solely for the purpose of recordation. Accordingly, ...