1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Promoting Digital Privacy Technologies Act . 2. Promoting privacy enhancing technologies (a) Definition of privacy enhancing technology In this section the term privacy enhancing technology means any software or hardware solution, technical processes, or other technological means of protecting an individual’s privacy and the confidentiality of data, which may include— (1) de-identification, anonymization and pseudonymization technologies or techniques, filtering tools, anti-tracking technology, differential privacy tools, synthetic data generation tools, cryptographic techniques (such as secure multi-party computation and homomorphic encryption), and systems for federated learning; and (2) any other software or hardware solution, technical processes, or other technological means that the Director of the National Science Foundation, in consultation with the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, determines to be a technology that enhances privacy. (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 to protect individuals’ privacy in data sets; (2) fundamental research on algorithms, machine learning, and other computational processes or tools used to protect individual privacy when collecting, storing, sharing, aggregating, or analyzing data; (3) fundamental research on technologies that promote data minimization principles in data collection, sharing, transfers, retention, and analytics; (4) research awards on privacy enhancing technologies coordinated with other relevant Federal agencies and programs