S.Amdt. 4121

SA 4121. Ms. CORTEZ MASTO (for herself and Mrs. Fischer) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr.
Reed and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2022 for military activities of the
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel
strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. PROMOTING DIGITAL PRIVACY TECHNOLOGIES.

(a) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Personal data.--The term ``personal data'' means
information that identifies, is linked to, or is reasonably
linkable to, an individual or a consumer device, including
derived data.
(2) Privacy enhancing technology.--The term ``privacy
enhancing technology''--
(A) means any software solution, technical processes, or
other technological means of enhancing the privacy and
confidentiality of an individual's personal data in data or
sets of data; and
(B) includes anonymization and pseudonymization techniques,
filtering tools, anti-tracking technology, differential
privacy tools, synthetic data, and secure multi-party
computation.
(b) National Science Foundation Support of Research on
Privacy Enhancing Technology.--The Director of the National
Science Foundation, in consultation with other relevant
Federal agencies (as determined 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 of personal data in data sets while maintaining
fairness, accuracy, and efficiency;
(2) fundamental research on algorithms and other similar
mathematical tools used to protect individual privacy when
collecting, storing, sharing, or aggregating data;
(3) fundamental research on technologies that promote data
minimization principles in data collection, sharing, and
analytics; and
(4) research awards on privacy enhancing technologies
coordinated with other relevant Federal agencies and
programs.
(c) Integration Into the Computer and Network Security
Program.--Subparagraph (D) of section 4(a)(1) of the Cyber
Security Research and Development Act (15 U.S.C.
7403(a)(1)(D)) is amended to read as follows:
``(D) privacy enhancing technologies and
confidentiality;''.
(d) Coordination With the National Institute of Standards
and Technology and Other Stakeholders.--
(1) In general.--The Director of the Office of Science and
Technology Policy, acting through the Networking and
Information Technology Research and Development Program,
shall coordinate with the Director of the National Science
Foundation, the Director of the National Institute of
Standards and Technology, and the Federal Trade Commission to
accelerate the development and use of privacy enhancing
technologies.
(2) Outreach.--The Director of the National Institute of
Standards and Technology shall conduct outreach to--
(A) receive input from private, public, and academic
stakeholders, including the National Institutes of Health and
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for the
purpose of facilitating public health research, on the
development of privacy enhancing technologies; and
(B) develop ongoing public and private sector engagement to
create and disseminate voluntary, consensus-based resources
to increase the integration of privacy enhancing technologies
in data collection, sharing, and analytics by the public and
private sectors.
(e) Report on Research and Standards Development.--Not
later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act,
the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy,
acting through the Networking and Information Technology
Research and Development Program, shall, in coordination with
the Director of the National Science Foundation and the
Director of the National Institute of Standards and
Technology, submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation of the Senate, and the Committee on Science,
Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives, a
report containing--
(1) the progress of research on privacy enhancing
technologies;
(2) the progress of the development of voluntary resources
described under subsection (d)(2)(B); and
(3) any policy recommendations of the Directors that could
facilitate and improve communication and coordination between
the private sector, the National Science Foundation, and
relevant Federal agencies through the implementation of
privacy enhancing technologies.
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