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S 4981 116th Congress Senate Science, Technology, Communications Computer security and identity theft Computers and information technology Congressional oversight Public-private cooperation Research administration and funding Research and development Right of privacy Technology assessment

Promoting Digital Privacy Technologies Act

Introduced: December 8, 2020 Introduced by: Cortez Masto, Catherine Democratic · Nevada See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Dec 8, 2020
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Promoting Digital Privacy Technologies Act

This bill directs the National Science Foundation to support merit-reviewed and competitively awarded research on privacy enhancing technologies. The award of grants for basic research on innovative approaches to the structure of computer and network hardware and software that are aimed at enhancing computer security may include privacy enhancing technologies and confidentiality. The bill also requires the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program to submit to Congress a report on the progress of research on privacy enhancing technologies and the development of specified voluntary resources.

What's happening now December 8, 2020

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

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Fischer, Deb
Nebraska · Dec 8, 2020
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 4981: Promoting Digital Privacy Technologies Act. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-4981/
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"S. 4981: Promoting Digital Privacy Technologies Act." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-4981/.
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S. 4981, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-4981/.
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