Ignore that call from “Apple” about an iCloud breach; Lauren Reynolds, Rose Law Group litigation attorney, who focuses on privacy and data breach issues, stresses ‘verification’

By Glenn Fleishman | Macworld Earlier on Monday, my wife let me know that “Apple Support” had called about iCloud security. She was dubious, and rightly so. “Apple” then called five more times (and counting). Suffice it to say, it wasn’t Apple, but fraudsters trying to piggyback on reports that a major breach of iCloud credentials could render hundreds of …

Mother of a Metal

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Resolution Copper) By Keridwen Cornelius | Phoenix Magazine It’s raining nearly 7,000 feet underground. The slick, sprayed concrete “rock” in this man-made cavern is striped with Mars-orange and alien-green algae. Calcification blooms into what look like bleached coral and barnacles clinging to the ceiling beams and emergency phone. More than a mile closer to the …

Privacy in the cellphone age; Lauren Reynolds, Rose Law Group litigation attorney, who focuses on privacy and data breach issues, says new laws needed

The New York Times (Editor’s note: Opinion pieces are published for discussions purposes only.) Odds are you need to use that phone in your pocket many times a day — and doing so leaves you no choice but to constantly relay data revealing your location and movements to Verizon, AT&T or whatever cellphone company you pay for the service. For …

Wright home in Arcadia plans to develop school and attraction for 30,000 visitors

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Peter Sperling in preserving the residential historical character of Arcadia.) By Brenna Goth | The Republic A Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in Phoenix’s Arcadia neighborhood that has generated years of controversy will be donated to the Arizona Community Foundation for use by the architecture program at Taliesin West, its owner will announce today. Backers of …

In the age of Trump, social media slugfests are driving coverage for defamation along with home and auto policies; defamation insurance a must, says Rose Law Group litigation attorney Logan Elia

By Polly Mosendz | Bloomberg Courtney Love spent almost six years in litigation accused of libeling her former attorney in a Twitter post that was visible for less than 10 minutes. She paid a reported $780,000 in settlements as a result of two other defamation suits, both stemming from Twitter missives Love wrote about designer Dawn Simorangkir. “Twitter should ban …

Chamber: APEX will benefit Maricopa

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents APEX Motor Sports By Maricopa Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors | InMaricopa The City of Maricopa Chamber of Commerce welcomes the APEX Motor Club to our great city, as it will bring significant economic benefits to our growing City. The Maricopa Chamber of Commerce, since 1990, is the strongest business organization in our great community …

Anti-APEX petitions filed at City Hall

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents APEX Motor Sports By Raquel Hendrickson | InMaricopa A committee aiming to stop the construction of Apex Motor Club in Maricopa turned in more than twice the number of signatures needed for a referendum. The Maricopa Citizens Protecting Tax Payers Political Action Committee was granted its request to file its 86 petitions Friday, when City Hall …

Survey: Real estate businesses lacking in information security; they should proactively protect this information, says Lauren Reynolds, Rose Law Group litigation attorney who focuses on privacy and data breach issues

RISMedia Few real estate businesses have policies in place for handling confidential information—information about clients, namely—and even less understand legal requirements about housing and/or trashing sensitive information, according to a recently released survey. Per findings from the Shred-it Information Security Tracker Survey, conducted by Ipsos, 26 percent of real estate businesses have no formal procedure for managing personal information on …

Driverless cars: The transportation disrupter

By Laruen Reynolds, Rose Law Group attorney focusing her practice on Cyber Security and Dan Gauthier, law clerk  A look at driverless benefits, accidents, insurance and laws By Daniel Gauthier | Rose Law Group law clerk Imagine your commute to work this way: You walk out your front door, coffee and newspaper in hand, open the car door, and press the on button; after …

Health director: Alternative pain relief could help curb opioid abuse, deaths; Ryan Hurley, Rose Law Group partner and director of Medical Marijuana Dept. says cannabis an ‘off-ramp’ from addiction

By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services via Arizona Capitol Times Faced with an average of two deaths a day, the state’s top health official is looking for ways to curb the abuse of opioids, both legal and otherwise. And some of that may involve getting doctors to find alternative relief for patients with chronic pain — including possibly recommending …