Alara Abbasi is an Associate in the Los Angeles office of Squire Patton Boggs, where she is a member of the firm’s Data Privacy, Cybersecurity & Digital Assets Practice and its Advertising, Media & Brands Industry Group. She provides regulatory, transactional, and litigation support to national and international companies on the full range of consumer privacy issues, and has emerged as a frequent commentator on California Privacy Protection Agency enforcement and the fast-growing body of state age- and identity-verification laws — the very intersection of verification and privacy compliance that this program addresses.