Tapplock Inc., a Canadian company that makes a fingerprint-enabled padlock that can connect to smartphones, settled claims with the Federal Trade Commission on Monday that it allegedly made misrepresentations on how secure its locks are and failed to properly secure consumers’ personal information.

Experts say the FTC will likely continue to ramp up enforcement on companies that make the Internet of Things products if they do not include information security in the initial design of their products and work to more carefully market those products.

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