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Anne Toomey McKenna (she/her), 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 during the pandemic and is currently a Visiting Professor of Law at University of Richmond School of Law. Professor McKenna remains Affiliated Faculty with ICDS, and she currently serves as Co-Chair of IEEE’s Privacy, Equity, and Justice in AI Subcommittee. Professor McKenna teaches Civil Procedure, Evidence, Information Privacy Law, and Cyberlaw in Practice (a course she developed). In addition to her extensive legal teaching experience, Professor McKenna is also a trial attorney with two-plus decades of complex civil litigation experience in federal and state courts in Maryland and the District of Columbia. Her work includes representing, advising, consulting, and educating government agencies, courts, businesses, educational institutions, and individuals about these increasingly 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 * satellite surveillance and data, including 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 * electronic evidence.

A new US data privacy bill aims to give you more control over information collected about you – and make businesses change how they handle data

With rare bipartisan support, the American Data and Privacy Protection Act moved out of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce by a vote of 53-2 on July 20, 2022. The bill still needs to pass the full House and the Senate, and negotiations are ongoing. Given the Biden administration’s responsible data practices strategy, White House support is likely if a version of the bill passes. Legal scholar and attorney Professor Anne Toomey McKenna, who studies and practices technology and data privacy law, has been closely following the act, known as ADPPA. McKenna contends that if passed this legislation will fundamentally alter U.S. data privacy law.

Subjects: Congress, Cyberlaw, Cyberlaw Legislation, Cybersecurity, Federal Legislative Research, Legal Research, Legislative, Privacy, United States Law