Alan L. Friel is a Partner at Squire Patton Boggs and Chair of the firm’s Data Privacy, Cybersecurity & Digital Assets Practice, a global group of more than 75 lawyers. He counsels companies on privacy and data protection, advertising technology, artificial intelligence governance, and cybersecurity, and defends them when regulators and plaintiffs come calling. Earlier in his career he served as general counsel, corporate secretary and chief administrative officer of a digital media and e-commerce company.