Prompt: Visit PrivacyRights.org to see the types of publicly available information about data breaches. How might researchers use this information to study breaches?
Researchers can use privacyrights.org to study breaches by examining the statistics and information published on the website. This website publishes quantitative statistics related to data breaches in categories such as location, time, and how the data was stolen. This information could be used by researchers to analyze trends in cyber breaches based on any of these categories. They could also use this information to create a hypothesis that would be tested and either proved or modified in further research. Privacyrights.org also contains data related to laws and regulations surrounding data privacy. This could be used by researchers to understand how existing laws affect data breaches. They could take this a step further by studying which regulations work the best to propose new, better legislation surrounding data privacy.