Participant Info

First Name

Anne Toomey

Last Name

McKenna

City

Richmond

State

VA

Zip Code

23221

Research Interests

privacy, cyber, data, electronic surveillance, technology, geodata, AI, biometrics

Willing to be contacted by the media

Yes

On the academic market

Yes

University

University of Richmond School of Law

About Me

Anne Toomey McKenna, formerly Penn State Dickinson Law’s Distinguished Scholar of Cyber Law & Policy and co-hire with Penn State’s Institute for Computational & Data Sciences (ICDS), moved to Richmond, VA, in the early stages of the pandemic and was hired by Richmond Law as a Visiting Faculty Member teaching Evidence, Cyberlaw in Practice (a course she developed), and Information Privacy Law. Professor McKenna remains Affiliated Faculty with ICDS. In addition to her teaching, research, and publications, Professor McKenna is also a trial attorney with two-plus decades of complex civil litigation experience in federal and state courts representing, advising, consulting, and educating government agencies, courts, businesses, educational institutions, and individuals about these intersecting subject matter areas: emerging technologies and the law, including artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and biometric systems; electronic surveillance; data laws and data practices (including health, financial, and PII privacy compliance and handling breaches); school and workplace privacy; website practices and terms; geolocation tracking and geodata; social media and online content/speech/tort issues, including mis- and disinformation and national security; statutory claims, including ECPA and CFAA; and electronic evidence. Professor McKenna currently serves as Co-Chair of IEEE’s Privacy, Equity, and Justice in AI Subcommittee. Pursuant to a grant from the National Security Agency (NSA), Professor McKenna was the lead faculty creator of Principles of Cyber Law & Policy, a course published in 2019 as part of NSA’s national cyber workforce educational initiatives. She also served for two years (2014-2016) as the Principal Legal Consultant for the Department of Justice-COPS’s initiative: the Use of UAVs (drones) in Community Policing. Professor McKenna’s publications include: • Jones on Evidence, 7th Ed., (Fishman & McKenna), cited by the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh Circuits, and the District of Columbia Circuit • Wiretapping & Eavesdropping: Surveillance in the Internet Age, (McKenna & Fishman), cited by the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Fifth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits • The Role of Satellites and Smart Devices: Data Surprises and Security, Privacy, and Regulatory Challenges, 123 Penn State L. Rev. 591 (2019), McKenna, Anne Toomey; Gaudion, Amy C.; Evans, Jenni L. • Pass Parallel Privacy Standards or Privacy Perishes, McKenna, Anne T., 65 Rutgers L. Rev. 1041 (2013) • Pending: Cyberlaw in Practice, McKenna, Anne Toomey (forthcoming Wolters Kluwer casebook) Her work has also appeared in Blink-an Atlantic publication, The Conversation, and Science Node. Professor McKenna’s news media interviews and quotes include NPR’s Morning Edition, The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Globe, the New York Post, Vice, Bloomberg Law/Radio, and NBC, FOX, and CBS news. She is also one of the lead interviewees in the 2020 documentary, Interference: Democracy at Risk. Among her pro bono work, Professor McKenna has represented victims of revenge porn and online stalking, and she helped obtain a published First Amendment victory in Connecticut’s Supreme Court for a murder victim’s family’s right to post missing posters.

Email

amckenna@richmond.edu