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Promoting Digital Privacy Technologies Act

Introduced: February 4, 2021 Introduced by: Cortez Masto, Catherine Democratic · Nevada See on congress.gov
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Feb 4, 2021
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Feb 4, 2021
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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 February 4, 2021

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

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Republican 1