A complaint to the US Federal Trade Commission alleges that cloud-based storage provider Dropbox has deceived users about the security of its service.
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The complaint (PDF) suggests the free service has employed "deceptive trade practices", with users being told that Dropbox's employees cannot access their data when in fact they can.
Christopher Soghoian, a PhD student and prominent security researcher at Indiana University, filed the complaint. It contains as evidence data that Soghoian published in April, showing that Dropbox employees can indeed see the contents of users' files. Dropbox, which has more than 25 million users, made changes to data-security policies the day after Soghoian's data was originally published.
For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Dropbox deceived users about data security, alleges security researcher on CNET UK.
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