Professor Anne McKenna is an attorney, author, educator, researcher, speaker, and policy advisor.

Anne’s work is known internationally, and her extensive legal publications are widely cited and leading works in their fields.

Anne has years of experience practicing, researching, writing, teaching, and speaking about surveillance technologies and AI, privacy, evidence, procedure, and law.

She helps her clients, and courts, journalists, agencies, businesses, and litigators understand these complex and rapidly evolving subjects. And she can help answer your questions.

Publications:

  • 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 Fast Company, Ars Technica, Yahoo News, CNN, BRINK (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.

Specialties:

  • Emerging Technologies & the Law: Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Systems, & Biometric Systems

  • Electronic Surveillance

  • Data Laws & Practices: Health, Financial, & PII Privacy Compliance & Breaches

  • School & Workplace Privacy

  • Website Practices & Terms

  • Geolocation Tracking & Geodata

  • Social Media & Online Content Speech & Tort Issues: Mis- and Disinformation & National Security

  • Statutory Claims, including ECPA & CFAA

  • Electronic Evidence