SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Promoting Digital Pri-
vacy Technologies Act’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF PRIVACY ENHANCING TECH-
NOLOGY. 
In this Act, the term ‘‘privacy enhancing tech-
nology’’— 
(1) means any software or hardware solution, 
technical process, or other technological means of 
mitigating individuals’ privacy risks arising from 
data processing by enhancing predictability, manage-
ability, disassociability, and confidentiality; and 
(2) may include— 
(A) cryptographic techniques for facili-
tating computation or analysis on data while 
mitigating privacy risks; 
(B) techniques for publicly sharing data 
without enabling inferences to be made about 
specific individuals; 
(C) techniques for giving individuals’ con-
trol over the dissemination, sharing, and use of 
their data; 
(D) techniques for generating synthetic 
data; and
(E) any other technology or approach that 
reduces the risk of re-identification, including 
when combined with other information. 
SEC. 3. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION SUPPORT OF RE-
SEARCH ON PRIVACY ENHANCING TECH-
NOLOGY. 
The Director of the National Science Foundation, in 
consultation with other relevant Federal agencies (as de-
termined by the Director), shall support merit-reviewed 
and competitively awarded research on privacy enhancing 
technologies, which may include— 
(1) fundamental research on technologies for 
de-identification, pseudonymization, anonymization, 
or obfuscation to mitigate individuals’ privacy risks 
in data sets while maintaining fairness, accuracy, 
and efficiency; 
(2) fundamental research on algorithms and 
other similar mathematical tools used to protect in-
dividual privacy when collecting, storing, sharing, 
analyzing, or aggregating data; 
(3) fundamental research on technologies that 
promote data minimization in data collection, shar-
ing, and analytics that takes into account the trade- 
offs between the data minimization goals and the in-
formational goals of data collection;
(4) research awards on privacy enhancing tech-
nologies coordinated with other relevant Federal 
agencies and programs; 
(5) supporting education and workforce training 
research and development activities, including re- 
training and upskilling of the existing workforce, to 
grow the number of privacy enhancing technology 
researchers and practitioners; 
(6) multidisciplinary socio-technical research 
that fosters broader understanding of privacy pref-
erences, requirements, and human behavior to in-
form the design and adoption of effective privacy so-
lutions; 
(7) development of freely available privacy en-
hancing technology software libraries, platforms, and 
applications; and 
(8) fundamental research on techniques that 
may undermine the protections provided by privacy 
enhancing technologies, the limitations of the protec-
tions provided by privacy enhancing technologies, 
and the trade-offs between privacy and utility re-
quired for their deployment.
SEC. 4. INTEGRATION INTO THE COMPUTER AND NETWORK 
SECURITY PROGRAM. 
Subparagraph (D) of section 4(a)(1) of the Cyber Se-
curity Research and Development Act (15 U.S.C. 
7403(a)(1)(D)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(D) privacy and confidentiality, including 
privacy enhancing technologies;’’. 
SEC. 5. COORDINATION WITH THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF 
STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY AND OTHER 
STAKEHOLDERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Office of 
Science and Technology Policy, acting through the Net-
working and Information Technology Research and Devel-
opment Program, shall coordinate with the Director of the 
National Science Foundation, the Director of the National 
Institute of Standards and Technology, the Federal Trade 
Commission, and the heads of other Federal agencies, as 
appropriate, to accelerate the development, deployment, 
and adoption of privacy enhancing technologies. 
(b) OUTREACH.—The Director of the National Insti-
tute of Standards and Technology shall conduct outreach 
to— 
(1) receive input from private, public, and aca-
demic stakeholders on the development of privacy 
enhancing technologies; and
(2) facilitate and support ongoing public and 
private sector engagement to inform the development 
and dissemination of voluntary, consensus-based 
technical standards, guidelines, methodologies, pro-
cedures, and processes to cost-effectively increase the 
integration of privacy enhancing technologies in data 
collection, sharing, and analytics performed by the 
public and private sectors. 
SEC. 6. REPORT ON PRIVACY ENHANCING TECHNOLOGY 
RESEARCH. 
Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Director of the Office of Science and Tech-
nology Policy, acting through the Networking and Infor-
mation Technology Research and Development Program, 
shall, in coordination with the Director of the National 
Science Foundation, the Director of the National Institute 
of Standards and Technology, and the heads of other Fed-
eral agencies, as appropriate, submit to the Committee on 
Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate, the 
Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Re-
lated Agencies of the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate, the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology 
of the House of Representatives, and the Subcommittee 
on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies of
the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives, a report containing— 
(1) the progress of research on privacy enhanc-
ing technologies; 
(2) the progress of the development of vol-
untary resources described under section 5(b)(2); 
and 
(3) any policy recommendations that could fa-
cilitate and improve communication and coordination 
between the private sector and relevant Federal 
agencies for the implementation and adoption of pri-
vacy enhancing technologies. 
SEC. 7. PROTECTING PERSONAL IDENTIFYING INFORMA-
TION. 
Any personal identifying information collected or 
stored through the activities authorized in this Act shall 
be done in accordance with section 690 of title 45, Code 
of Federal Regulations (relating to the protection of 
human subjects), or any successor regulation. 
Passed the House of Representatives May 11, 2022. 
Attest: 
Clerk.