A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the United States must seize the opportunity to create millions of jobs, become a net exporter of clean energy, and secure a better, more equitable future by accelerating the electrification of households, buildings, and businesses in the United States, modernizing the United States electricity grid, and continuing on the path towards decarbonizing electricity generation in the United States by 2035.
- Last Action
- 5/18/2021
Actions
- 2021-02-04Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
- 2021-02-04Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2021-02-04 (00)
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.
Cosponsors (1)
- Deb Fischer (R-NE)
Subjects
- Computer security and identity theft
- Computers and information technology
- Congressional oversight
- Public-private cooperation
- Research administration and funding
- Research and development
- Right of privacy
- Technology assessment
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