Journal Entry 3

Researchers might use this information to study breaches by being able to see data that is collected about data breaches in a wide range of ways that are interactive. The map that is provided by “Privacyrights.org” is a map of the USA that shows hotspots of reported data breaches country wide and shows which states are reporting more of these data breaches that occur. Another helpful demonstration of their interactive data is the “Impact Across Industries” which has display showing the different types of data breaches that occur as well as the type of organization that is affected. While the website only contains data about data breaches that are reported, it is still able to help researchers to see what type of data breach is occurring but also what type of organizations are being targeted. Allowing researchers to have a very detailed view of the “few” data breach incidents reported nation wide so that they can study and create experiments in the field that would be dealing with data breaches to help find solutions for future data breach incidents.

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