By Allison Grande (March 23, 2022, 9:29 PM EDT) — A South Carolina federal judge won’t release Quicken Loans from a putative class action claiming it exposed the personal information of hundreds of customers who were mistakenly copied on a collections email, finding the plaintiff adequately asserted that the mortgage provider didn’t protect and unlawfully publicized private data.
In an order issued Tuesday, U.S. District Judge J. Michelle Childs allowed plaintiff Suzanne Viscuso’s claims for negligence and invasion of privacy for wrongful publicizing of private affairs to move forward, while permanently axing her claims for breach of confidentiality and invasion of privacy for wrongful intrusion into private affairs, in the parties’…
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