Apple expands bet on cutting edge privacy technology; although useful hardly a fail-safe method, says Lauren Reynolds, Rose Law Group litigation attorney who focuses on privacy and data breach issues

Differential privacy allows companies to analyze data without learning too much about users By Robert McMillan | The Wall Street Journal Last year, Apple Inc. kicked off a massive experiment with new privacy technology aimed at solving an increasingly thorny problem: how to build products that understand users without snooping on their activities. Its answer is differential privacy, a term …

Cybercrime is threatening transactions; don’t necessarily rely on the technology, says Lauren Reynolds, Rose Law Group litigation attorney who focuses on privacy and data breach issues

REALTORMag Cybercrime is posing a risk to an increasing number of real estate transactions, with home buyers’ down payment funds the main target of scammers. Anthony Lamacchia, broker-owner of Lamacchia Realty in Waltham, Mass., wrote a recent article for Boston.com warning consumers to beware about the scam. Criminals are targeting home buyers by sending them emails that look like they might …

How thieves can use your information after a data breach

By Lauren Reynolds, Rose Law Group attorney focusing her practice on cyber security and Dan Gauthier, law clerk Data breaches have become a frequent occurrence. If your personal information has not been compromised in such a breach, you might know someone whose information has been. Despite the prevalence of such incidents, however, not much is known about what happens to one’s personal information after it …

Google decides to no longer scan emails for advertising

But it doesn’t mean Gmail will be ad-free By Lauren Reynolds, Rose Law Group attorney focusing her practice on Cyber Security and Dan Gauthier, law clerk Google has decided to stop scanning emails for the purpose of targeted advertising, a practice Google implemented years ago. The decision “brings Gmail ads in line with how we personalize ads for other Google products,” Google executive …

Practical tips for privacy and security

These Five Things Will Make You More Secure By Laruen Reynolds, Rose Law Group attorney focusing her practice on Cyber Security and Dan Gauthier, law clerk Privacy and security are hard to come by these days. We share information at a nauseating rate – nearly ninety percent of the U.S. population uses the Internet and some 300 million photos are …

Firm contracted by Republican groups left millions of voter files unsecured online; more than birth dates and addresses compromised says Lauren Reynolds, Rose Law Group litigation attorney, who focuses on privacy and data breach issues

By Brian Naylor | NPR So it seems that it’s not only Democrats who have trouble keeping their digital information secure online. An extensive database of information about 198 million Americans collected by a contractor hired by Republican groups was obtained by a security researcher, who found it on an Amazon server, with not even a single password protecting it. …

Rose Law Group’s Lauren Reynolds cited for cybersecurity work

Rose Law Group’s Lauren Reynolds cited for cybersecurity work By Mike Sunnucks | Phoenix Business Journal Arizona law firms are bolstering their technology prowess as cybersecurity, patent trolls, venture capital and other issues revolving around intellectual property, malware and innovation come to the forefront. Another Phoenix firm is adding to its litigation prowess with the addition of a veteran trial …