Kristin J. Mathews writes:
In a draft research paper titled “Empirical Analysis of Data Breach Litigation”, three prominent scholars have collected and analyzed a sample of over 230 federal data breach lawsuits in order to deduce just what makes them tick.
Romanosky, Hoffman and Acquisti examined, for example, what factual and legal characteristics made a company more likely to be sued for a breach of personal data, and what made a data breach lawsuit more likely to settle.
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