Promoting Digital Privacy Technologies Act

Summary

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.

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Timeline

1. 8 December 2020

   Introduced

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

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 8 December 2020

   Introduced

   Introduced in Senate

   Source: IntroReferral

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Versions

• Introduced in Senate · 8 December 2020 · Official file

Documents

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• Introduced in Senate (text)

  Introduced in Senate · EN · 8 December 2020

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• Introduced in Senate (PDF)

  Introduced in Senate · EN · 8 December 2020

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• Introduced in Senate

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Sponsors

• Catherine Cortez Masto · D · Sponsor
• Deb Fischer · R · Sponsor
• · sscm00 · Standing

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