The problem may be as simple as an employee or consultant sending information to Dropbox, but placing it in a public folder by mistake, for example.

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Nobody wants the core strategy deck on a public folder on Dropbox or credit card numbers in a Google Spreadsheet that is widely shared by accident.

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For example I could upload my eBook to the public folder on Dropbox and grab the link it gave me so that I could paste that into my blog and anyone could download it.

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