Prompt: Visit PrivacyRights.org to see the types of publicly available information about data breaches. How might researchers use this information to study breaches? Enter a paragraph in your journal.

In cyber space, a data breach can be devastating. The removal of PII, PHI, intellectual property, and banking informational can cause irreparable fiscal or reputational damage. Deterring, mitigating, and preventing attacks mainly stems from research. PrivacyRights.org is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide publicly available information regarding privacy laws and data breaches. Researchers can potentially use this service/resource to study. For example, PrivacyRights.org contains a heat map that displays breaches number, type, and how many total records have been impacted through chronology database. Not only does PrivacyRights.org contain maps and event logs, it contains articles tracking news of privacy breaches as well as law and policy changes.