H.R. 847 · 117th Congress
Promoting Digital Privacy Technologies Act
- Stage
- Passed a chamber
- Sponsor
- Haley Stevens
- Introduced
- 2021-02-04
- Latest action
- 2022-05-12 · Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
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 Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program (NITRD) must coordinate with appropriate agencies to accelerate the development, deployment, and adoption of privacy enhancing technologies. The bill also requires NITRD to submit to Congress a report on the progress of research on privacy enhancing technologies and the development of specified voluntary resources.