Cloud services company Dropbox engaged in deceptive practices by assuring users that their online file storage system kept information secure when in fact it failed to live up to data security best practices for encryption, according to a May 11 complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission (In re Dropbox Inc.).
The complaint, filed by Christopher Soghoian, a privacy advocate and graduate fellow at the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research at Indiana University, said that the Dropbox backup and file sharing service is used by some 25 million individuals and that more than 200 million files are stored ...
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