Daniel F. Forester

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Mr. Forester is an associate in Davis Polk's Corporate Department, practicing in the Intellectual Property and Technology Transactions Group. He advises clients on intellectual property and technology issues arising from corporate and commercial transactions, such as mergers and acquisitions, data or intellectual property licensing, development and commercialization arrangements, joint ventures and collaborations, financings, restructurings and capital market offerings. [Full Bio]

In Part 1 of this blog post, we discussed some key contractual provisions that lawyers should consider when entering into agreements with cloud service providers (“CSPs”).  In this Part 2, we discuss some additional contractual considerations to keep in mind, as well as some post-contract practices to consider in order…
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There are many good reasons why companies are increasingly migrating parts of the information technology to cloud service providers (“CSPs”), including lower overhead costs, greater data accessibility and mobility, and more efficient disaster-recovery response.  For cybersecurity, cloud solutions offer companies many benefits, such as full-time data security monitoring and data…
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On April 30, 2018, BLU Products, Inc. (“BLU”) reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) over allegations that BLU allowed ADUPS Technology Co. LTD (“ADUPS”) to collect detailed personal information about BLU’s consumers without their knowledge or consent, despite BLU’s assurances that…
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On April 23, 2018, Senators Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Kennedy (R-La.) introduced the Social Media Privacy Protection and Consumer Rights Act of 2018 (“the Act”), which was referred to the Senate Commerce Committee. Like the CONSENT Act introduced by Senators Markey (D-Mass.) and Blumenthal (D-Conn.)—discussed in detail in our…
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